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Waler vs Wager - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between waler and wager

is that waler is (australia|india) a breed of light saddle horse from australia, once favoured as a warhorse or waler can be (structural engineering) a plank of wood, block of concrete, etc, used for support or to maintain required separation between components in order to help maintain the form of a construction under stress while wager is something deposited, laid, or hazarded on the event of a contest or an unsettled question; a bet; a stake; a pledge or wager can be agent noun of wage; one who wages.

As a verb wager is

to bet something; to put it up as collateral.

waler

English

(Waler horse)

Etymology 1

From , the horse having been bred in the then colony of New South Wales in the 19th century.

Noun

(en noun)
  • (Australia, India) A breed of light saddle horse from Australia, once favoured as a warhorse.
  • * 1888 , Rudyard Kipling, ‘Wressley of the Foreign Office’, Plain Tales from the Hills , Folio Society 2004, p. 204,
    • Without reason, against prudence, and at a moment's notice, he fell in love with a frivolous, golden-haired girl who used to tear about Simla Mall on a high, rough waler , with a blue velvet jockey-cap crammed over her eyes.
  • * 1889 , Annie Brassey, The Last Voyage, to India and Australia, in the ‘Sunbeam’ , 2010, page 46,
    • There were Arabs of high degree, thoroughbred English horses, and very good-looking Walers among them, besides some tiny ponies, four of which, when harnessed together, drew a real Cinderella coach of solid silver.
  • * 2007', "'''Waler ", entry in Bonnie L. Hendricks, ''International Encyclopedia of Horse Breeds , page 434,
    • Some maintain that the Waler is extinct, its blood living on only in the modern Australian Stock Horse and some of the feral brumbies that roam the outback.
  • * 2013 , Peter Macinnis, The Big Book of Australian History , page 134,
    • By the 1850s, there was a thriving trade in selling the horses to the Indian Army as 'remounts'. Between 1834 and 1937, more than 300,000 Walers were sent to India.
    Usage notes
    Formerly considered a horse type, rather than a distinct breed.

    Etymology 2

    Noun

  • (structural engineering) A plank of wood, block of concrete, etc., used for support or to maintain required separation between components in order to help maintain the form of a construction under stress.
  • * 1998 , Richard Lampo, Thomas Nosker, Doug Barno, John Busel, Ali Maher, Piyush Dutta, Robert Odello, Construction Productivity Advancement Research (CPAR) Program: Development and Demonstration of Composite FRP Fender, Loadbearing, and Sheet Piling Systems , US Army Corps of Engineers Construction Engineering Research Laboratories, USACERL Technical Report 98/123, page 65,
    • Another consideration is when walers' are placed between the piles (Figure 27) and to what extent the pile could deform before the load of the berthing vessel would be shared by the adjacent ' walers .
  • * 2007 , David Easton, The Rammed Earth House , page 121,
    • Backing for the plywood is provided by 2” × 12” wooden planks (walers''''' in forming technology) spaced approximately 15 inches apart in the vertical direction and running the full length of the wall section. The form ties are ¾-inch pipe clamps, spaced 6 to 10 feet apart in the horizontal direction. In the typical concrete forms, '''walers''' are 2×4's and form ties are spaced at 2-foot intervals. By using 2×12 ' walers , form ties can be spaced at up to 10-foot intervals.
  • * 2009 , Howard A. Perko, Helical Piles: A Practical Guide to Design and Installation , page 374,
    • An optional cast-in-place concrete waler' is shown at each anchor row location. The concrete '''walers''' are cast against the earth after installation of the helical anchors and prior to excavation for the next lift. Concrete '''walers''' can reduce the required thickness of shotcrete for the remaining facing. The ' walers also improve punching resistance at the helical tie back locations.

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    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