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Answer for the clue "Pledge or challenge ", 4 letters:
gage
Alternative clues for the word gage
- British general during American Revolution
- A measuring instrument for measuring and indicating a quantity or for testing conformity with a standard
- A soft drug consisting of the dried leaves of the hemp plant
- Smoked or chewed for euphoric effect
- Revolutionary general
- Last royal governor of Mass.
- Bunker Hill general
- A pipeful, slang
Word definitions for gage in dictionaries
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Word definitions in WordNet
n. street names for marijuana [syn: pot , grass , green goddess , dope , weed , sess , sens , smoke , skunk , locoweed , Mary Jane ] a measuring instrument for measuring and indicating a quantity such as the thickness of wire or the amount of rain etc. ...
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
Gage is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Usage examples of gage.
He glanced at a small anemometer or wind gage, on the craft, and noted that it registered sixty miles an hour.
He wanted a blow--the harder the better--and all eyes anxiously watched the anemometer, or wind gage.
Gages, who had administered Navarre after the Italian war, and had, as I was assured, made the road at his own expense.
Can you deny that you gaged your ruby ring against my golden bracelet that yonder Knight of the Libbard, or how call you him, could not be seduced from his post?
Are they not a gage of battle you have thrown down to the wicked Nils Lykke on behalf of all womankind?
In the morning General Gage saw this important and formidable height, which he had entertained some thoughts of occupying himself, covered with works which seemed to have risen as it were by magic, and with troops that were beginning to fire on Boston-neck and the shipping.
Gage still bore deep down in his heart a hatred for the plebe who had become so popular at the academy.
Hodge remembered that Gage had tried to injure Frank in the past, and the dark-eyed plebe was ready to blaze forth in an instant.
They escaped by a postern with great difficulty, and repaired to the quarters of count Gages, who performed the part of a great general on this occasion.
If Katie told Lowden about John Smith, that he is really Ethan Harding and has been spying on the Tories for years, Gage could arrest him anyway.
As Rand dragged her across the room toward the other exit, Meriel shot an anguished glance back at Gage.
Gage shot him a furious, anguished look, but Meriel wasted no time in grasping his leg and pulling it straight.
Ensign Gage burst into the room, her expression warring between annoyance and chagrin.
Sim Gage fired with close, sure aim, and cut his man through with the blow of the Spitzer bullet of the Springfield piece.
Government and people, accept the gage of battle thus thrown down to them, and, appealing to God and the judgment of mankind for the righteousness of their Cause, the people of the Confederate States will defend their liberties to the last, against this flagrant and open attempt at their subjugation to Sectional power.