- a variation of gauge.
gage
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At one point, the gage measurement on that stretch of the river reached below three inches.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026
As Surrey, he trilled his tongue daringly as he threw down a gage; as a gossiping gardener, he exclaimed a comical “Whaaaaaaaat? Think you the King shall be deposed?”
From New York Times ● Jul. 17, 2020
To gage social compatibility: “Can I picture myself in all of these photos standing next to him?”
From Slate ● Dec. 24, 2019
When fishing in current on the Columbia your speed gage is your rod.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 25, 2016
"I will take up the gage, if it please the king."
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
He had been a lecturer at Yale, an assistant editor of the Yale Review, and during part of the War had en gaged in liason work abroad.
From Time Magazine Archive
Years ago they established the crank school of economics ; latterly they have founded the tirade school of journalism; they are now en gaged in popularizing the ostrich school of strategy.
From Time Magazine Archive
Aside from the academic contribution to the explosion of U.S. interest in the arts, almost no town is too big or too small to be en gaged in a new cultural enterprise of some kind.
From Time Magazine Archive
Ex-Ambassador Bullitt pointed to one difficulty: "The state of mind here today is about what it was in France a year before they en gaged in war with Germany."
From Time Magazine Archive
Now proceed as in the cross-lap joint, except that the gaged line runs around the end and the cutting must be done exactly to this line.
From Handwork in Wood by William Noyes
"It changes the atmosphere when a heckler goes too far, but it really is about gaging, do the people around me want me to keep going?"
From BBC ● Feb. 14, 2025
It’s just a matter of talking through it and gaging the draft and the people that are coming up and who’s available.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 2, 2014
The most gaging comment of all came from near the base of the famed extinct volcano Fujiyama, where a reporter interviewed extinct Foreign Minister Yosuke Matsuoka.
From Time Magazine Archive
One hesitates to call an opponent of marriage en gaging, but Germaine Greer is certainly that.
From Time Magazine Archive
There is a subclass for dressing, jointing, and gaging, and a subclass for dressing and jointing.
From The Classification of Patents by United States Patent Office
The river gage shows the river may reach 192.58 feet The Chehalis Basin Flood Authority has flood inundation maps & river gages for the region on its website.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 7, 2022
According to stream gages, as much as 58 percent of the water in the Gunnison River — a prominent Colorado River tributary — comes not from snowpack on the peaks above but from groundwater.
From Scientific American ● Jul. 20, 2015
It would also raise the funding for stream gages, which monitor water levels and collect other data, by $7.2 million.
From Science Magazine ● Apr. 12, 2013
Readings have come in from deep ocean gages deployed since the 2004 tsunami in Banda Acha in Japan and around Wake Island.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 11, 2011
Everybody began attending to the paraphernalia of a challenge, the usual sealing of the gages with signets and so on, and the fixing of the date.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
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