Galed vs Gaged - What's the difference?
galed | gaged |
(gale)
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To sing; charm; enchant.
* Court of Love
To cry; groan; croak.
To talk.
(intransitive, of a bird, Scotland) To call.
To sing; utter with musical modulations.
(meteorology) A very strong wind, more than a breeze, less than a storm; number 7 through 9 winds on the 12-step Beaufort scale.
An outburst, especially of laughter.
(archaic) A light breeze.
* Shakespeare
* Milton
(obsolete) A song or story.
(nautical) To sail, or sail fast.
A shrub, also sweet gale or bog myrtle (Myrica gale ) growing on moors and fens.
(archaic) A periodic payment, such as is made of a rent or annuity.
(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.
(to measure)
As verbs the difference between galed and gaged
is that galed is past tense of gale while gaged is past tense of gage.galed
English
Verb
(head)gale
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) galen, from (etyl) . Related to (l).Verb
- Can he cry and gale .
Etymology 2
From (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- a gale of laughter
- A little gale will soon disperse that cloud.
- And winds of gentlest gale Arabian odours fanned / From their soft wings.
- (Toone)
Coordinate terms
* (meteorology) breeze, hurricane, stormSee also
* Beaufort scaleVerb
(gal)Etymology 3
(etyl) (en)Noun
(Myrica gale) (Webster 1913)Etymology 4
(etyl)Noun
- Gale day - the day on which rent or interest is due.
References
Anagrams
* ----gaged
English
Verb
(head)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.
