Damson vs Gage - What's the difference?
damson | gage |
A subspecies of plum tree, , native to Eurasia.
The edible fruit of this tree.
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(obsolete) To give or deposit as a pledge or security; to pawn.
* Shakespeare
(archaic) To wager, to bet.
* Ford
To bind by pledge, or security; to engage.
* Shakespeare
Something, such as a glove or other pledge, thrown down as a challenge to combat (now usually figurative).
* 1819 , Walter Scott, Ivanhoe :
*:“But it is enough that I challenge the trial by combat — there lies my gage .” She took her embroidered glove from her hand, and flung it down before the Grand Master with an air of mingled simplicity and dignity…
* 1988 , James McPherson, Battle Cry for Freedom , Oxford 2003, page 166:
(obsolete) Something valuable deposited as a guarantee or pledge; security, ransom.
*1886 , , The Princess Casamassima .
*:[I]t seemed to create a sort of material link between the Princess and himself, and at the end of three months it almost appeared to him, not that the exquisite book was an intended present from his own hand, but that it had been placed in that hand by the most remarkable woman in Europe.... [T]he superior piece of work he had done after seeing her last, in the immediate heat of his emotion, turned into a kind of proof and gage , as if a ghost, in vanishing from sight, had left a palpable relic.
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As nouns the difference between damson and gage
is that damson is a subspecies of plum tree, species: Prunus domestica subsp. insititia, native to Eurasia while gage is something, such as a glove or other pledge, thrown down as a challenge to combat (now usually figurative).As an adjective damson
is the color of the fruit of this tree, a very deep purple.As a verb gage is
to give or deposit as a pledge or security; to pawn.As a proper noun Gage is
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(wikipedia damson)Noun
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*gage
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) gage, from later (etyl) or early (etyl) gager (verb), (also guagier in Old French) gage (noun), ultimately from (etyl) , from (etyl) (whence English wed). Doublet of wage, from the same origin through the Old Northern French variant wage. See also mortgage.Verb
(gag)- A moiety competent / Was gaged by our king.
- This feast, I'll gage my life, / Is but a plot to train you to your ruin.
- Great debts / Wherein my time, sometimes too prodigal, / Hath left me gaged .
Noun
(en noun)- The gage was down for a duel that would split the Democratic party and ensure the election of a Republican president in 1860.