noun

1. something deposited or pledged to ensure that an obligation will be fulfilled; security
2. a pledge to appear and fight, as a glove thrown down by a knight challenging another
3. a challenge

Etymology: ME < OFr, a pledge, pawn < (? via ML wagium) Frank *waddi or Goth wadi, pledge < IE base *wadh-: see wed

transitive verb gaged, gaging gag′·ing

1. to offer as a pledge; wager
2. to bind by a pledge

noun, transitive verb gaged, gaging gag′·ing

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