noun

• 1A valued object deposited as a guarantee of good faith.

  More example sentences

  • ‘The same process, involving distraints and blockade, may be used not only in pleas begun by writ, but also in pleas begun by gage and pledge.’

  Synonyms

  collateral, security, surety, guaranty, insurance, indemnity, indemnification

  1. 1.1A pledge, especially a glove, thrown down as a symbol of a challenge to fight.
     Synonyms

     surety, bond, security, collateral, guarantee, deposit, pawn

transitive verb

• Offer (a thing or one's life) as a guarantee of good faith.

  More example sentences

  • ‘a guide sent to them by the headman of this place gaged his life as a forfeit if he failed’

  Synonyms

  mortgage, put up as collateral, guarantee, pawn

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transitive verb

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