gaging

Verb

gage (third-person singular simple present gages, present participle gaging, simple past and past participle gaged)

1. (transitive) To bind (someone) by pledge or security; to engage.
   • Great debts / Wherein my time, sometimes too prodigal, / Hath left me gaged.c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...
2. (archaic, transitive) To bet or wager (something).
   • O doe not goe, this feaſt (I'le gage my life) / Is but a plot to trayne you to your ruine, / Be rul'd, you ſha'not goe.c. 1626 or 1629–1633 (first performance), [John Ford], ’Tis Pitty Shee’s a Whore […], London: […] Nicholas Okes for Richard Collins, […], published 1633, →OCLC, Act V, signature I2, verso
3. (obsolete, transitive) To deposit or give (something) as a pledge or security; to pawn.
   • A moiety competent / Was gaged by our king.c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac...

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