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gave | gage |

As a noun gave

is a (something given to someone, eg for christmas or a birthday ).

As a verb gage is

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gave

English

Verb

(head)
  • (give)
  • * c. 1471 , An English Chronicle, 1377-1461 :
    • there the erl of Dunbar becam his manne, and the kyng yaf him the Counte of Richemunde.
  • * 1591 , (William Shakespeare), King Henry VI, part 1 :
    • I gaue thee Life, and rescu'd thee from Death.
  • * 1815 , (Jane Austen), Emma :
    • The superior degree of confidence towards Harriet, which this one article marked, gave her severe pain.
  • * 2011 , Bob Woffinden, (The Guardian) , 31 Jul 2011:
    • With the Oxford canal at the bottom of his garden, regular canoeing excursions gave him enormous pleasure.

    See also

    * given

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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)
  • (obsolete) To give or deposit as a pledge or security; to pawn.
  • * Shakespeare
    • A moiety competent / Was gaged by our king.
  • (archaic) To wager, to bet.
  • * Ford
    • This feast, I'll gage my life, / Is but a plot to train you to your ruin.
  • To bind by pledge, or security; to engage.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Great debts / Wherein my time, sometimes too prodigal, / Hath left me gaged .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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:
    • The gage was down for a duel that would split the Democratic party and ensure the election of a Republican president in 1860.
  • (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.

    • Etymology 2

    See (m).

    Noun

    (en noun)

    • Verb

    (gag)
  • (to measure)
    • Usage notes
    The spelling gage'' is encountered primarily in American English, but even there it is less common than the spelling ''gauge .

    Etymology 3

    Named after the Gage family of England, who imported the greengage from France.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A subspecies of plum, .
    • Derived terms
    * blue gage * frost gage * golden gage * greengage