Definitions
A pledge, token, or instrument for measuring.
Word origin
From Middle English gage, from later Old French or early Middle French gager (verb), (also guagier in Old French) gage (noun), ultimately from Frankish *waddi, from Proto-Germanic *wadją (whence English wed). Doublet of wage, from the same origin through the Old Northern French variant wage. See also mortgage.
Used in a sentence
“Great debts / Wherein my time, sometimes too prodigal, / Hath left me gaged.”
“O doe not goe, this feaſt (I'le gage my life) / Is but a plot to trayne you to your ruine, / Be rul'd, you ſha'not goe.”
“A moiety competent / Was gaged by our king.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Measuring instrument”4 letters
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