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  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Gage  \Gage\,  v.  t.  [imp.  &  p.  p.  {Gaged};  p.  pr  &  vb  n. 
  {Gaging}.]  [Cf.  F.  gager.  See  {Gage},  n.,  a  pledge.] 
  1.  To  give  or  deposit  as  a  pledge  or  security  for  some  act 
  to  wage  or  wager;  to  pawn  or  pledge.  [Obs.] 
 
  A  moiety  competent  Was  gaged  by  our  king.  --Shak. 
 
  2.  To  bind  by  pledge,  or  security;  to  engage. 
 
  Great  debts  Wherein  my  time,  sometimes  too  prodigal, 
  Hath  left  me  gaged.  --Shak. 




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