Gaped vs Gaged - What's the difference?
gaped | gaged |
(gape)
To open the mouth wide, especially involuntarily, as in a yawn, anger, or surprise.
* 1723 , , The Journal of a Modern Lady'', 1810, Samuel Johnson, ''The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper , Volume 11,
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=9 To stare in wonder.
To open wide; to display a gap.
* '', Act 1, Scene 1, 1807, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (editors),''The plays of William Shakspeare , Volume X,
* 1662 , , Book II, A Collection of Several Philosophical Writings of Dr. Henry More, p. 74:
* , Cato Major, Of Old Age: A Poem , 1710,
(uncommon) An act of gaping; a yawn.
A large opening.
(uncountable) A disease in poultry caused by gapeworm in the windpipe, a symptom of which is frequent gaping.
The width of an opening.
(zoology) The maximum opening of the mouth (of a bird, fish, etc.) when it is open.
(gage)
(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 verbs the difference between gaped and gaged
is that gaped is past tense of gape while gaged is past tense of gage.gaped
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(gap)page 467,
- She stretches, gapes , unglues her eyes, / And asks if it be time to rise;
citation, passage=Eustace gaped at him in amazement. When his urbanity dropped away from him, as now, he had an innocence of expression which was almost infantile. It was as if the world had never touched him at all.}}
page 291,
- May that ground gape , and swallow me alive, / Where I shall kneel to him who slew my father!
- "Nor is he deterr'd from the belief of the perpetual flying of the Manucodiata, by the gaping of the feathers of her wings, (which seem thereby less fit to sustain her body) but further makes the narration probable by what he has observed in Kites hovering in the Aire, as he saith, for a whole hour together without any flapping of their wings or changing place."
page 25,
- The hungry grave for her due tribute gapes :
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(head)gage
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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 .
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(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.