gage

name

Etymology: An occupational surname from Middle English gage, guage (“measure”) for an assayer, or gage (“pledge”) for a moneylender.

1. A surname originating as an occupation.
2. A male given name transferred from the surname, of modern usage.
3. A female given name.
4. A place in the United States:
5. A place in the United States:
6. A place in the United States:
7. A place in the United States:

noun

1. Marijuana

   “Of course, I take a bang or some mud in coffee now and then, and I pick up on gage right smart.”

   “Black faces, white tablecloth, gleaming very sharp knives lined up by the saucers... tobacco and "gage" smoke richly blended, eye-reddening and tart as wine, yowzah gwine smoke a little ob dis hyah sheeit gib de wrinkles in mah brain a proccess!”

2. A pint pot.
3. A drink.
4. A tobacco pipe.

   “Troll us a stave, my antediluvian file, and in the mean time tip me a gage of fogus, Jerry”

5. A chamber pot.
6. A small quantity of anything.

   “GAGE, a small quantity of anything; as “a gage of tobacco,” meaning a. pipeful; “a gage of gin,” a glassful.”

7. A quart pot.

   “I bowse no lage, but a whole gage / Of this I'll bowse to you.”

   “Harry. To pay, Moll, for I must hike. Moll. Did you call me, Master? Harry. Ay, to pay, in a Whiff. Moll. Let me see. There's a Grunter's Gig, is a Si-Buxom; two Cat's Heads, a Win; a Double Gage of Rum Slobber, is Thrums; and a Quartern of Max, is three Megs: — That makes a Traveller all but a Meg. Harry. Here, take your Traveller, and tip the Meg to the Kinchin.”

verb

Etymology: See gauge.

1. Alternative spelling of gauge.