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Wager vs Yager - What's the difference?

wager | yager |

As nouns the difference between wager and yager

is that wager is something deposited, laid, or hazarded on the event of a contest or an unsettled question; a bet; a stake; a pledge while yager is a heavy, muzzle-loading hunting rifle.

As a verb wager

is to bet something; to put it up as collateral.

wager

English

(Webster 1913)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) wageure'', from ''wagier'' "to pledge" (compare Old French guagier, whence modern French gager). See also ''wage .

Noun

(wikipedia wager) (en noun)
  • Something deposited, laid, or hazarded on the event of a contest or an unsettled question; a bet; a stake; a pledge.
  • * Sir W. Temple
    • Besides these Plates, the Wagers may be as the Persons please among themselves, but the Horses must be evidenced by good Testimonies to have been bred in Ireland.
  • * Bentley
    • If any atheist can stake his soul for a wager against such an inexhaustible disproportion, let him never hereafter accuse others of credulity.
  • (legal) A contract by which two parties or more agree that a certain sum of money, or other thing, shall be paid or delivered to one of them, on the happening or not happening of an uncertain event.
    • (Bouvier)
  • That on which bets are laid; the subject of a bet.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To bet something; to put it up as collateral
    • I'd wager my boots on it.
  • (figuratively) To daresay.
    • I'll wager that Johnson knows something about all this.
    Synonyms
    * (to daresay) lay odds

    Etymology 2

    From the verb, to wage + .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Agent noun of wage; one who wages.
  • * 1912 , Pocumtack Valley Memorial Association, History and Proceedings of the Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association , p. 65:
    • They were wagers of warfare against the wilderness and the Indians, and founders of families and towns.
  • * 1957 , Elsa Maxwell, How to Do It; Or, The Lively Art of Entertaining , p. 7:
    • Hatshepsut was no wager of wars, no bloodstained conqueror.
    English agent nouns

    yager

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (US, obsolete) A heavy, muzzle-loading hunting rifle
  • *{{quote-book, year=1857, author=Mayne Reid, title=The War Trail, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=There are fourscore of them; and but that each carries a yager rifle in his hand, a knife in his belt, and a Colt's pistol on his thigh, you could not discover the slightest point of resemblance between any two of them. }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1874, author=Mayne Reid, title=The Death Shot, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Many present identify it as the yager usually carried by Clancy. }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1879, author=William F. Cody, title=The Life of Hon. William F. Cody, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=We were each armed with a Mississippi yager and two Colt's revolvers. }}
  • A , an elite soldier of the Austrian army
  • *{{quote-book, year=1863, author=Arthur J. L. (Lieut.-Col.) Fremantle, title=Three Months in the Southern States, April-June 1863, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Most of the officers were dressed in
  • *{{quote-book, year=1901, author=Maurus Jokai, title=Manasseh, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=A battalion of yagers , the pride of the Austrian army, charged up the fatal hill and succeeded in taking it, after which the rattle of musketry beyond announced that the fight was being continued on the farther side. }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1926, author=John Marshall, title=The Life of George Washington, Vol. 3 (of 5), chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Three days after this affair, Colonel Richard Butler, with a detachment of infantry, assisted by Major Lee with a part of his cavalry, fell in with a small party of chasseurs and yagers' under Captain Donop, which he instantly charged, and, without the loss of a man, killed ten on the spot, and took the officer commanding the chasseur, and eighteen of the ' yagers , prisoners. }}

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