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lage

lage noun: water; any weak alcoholic beverage.

Noun

lage (uncountable)

  1. (UK, obsolete, thieves' cant) Water; any weak alcoholic beverage.
    • I bowse no lage, but a whole gage / Of this I'll bowse to you.1641–42, Richard Brome, A Jovial Crew, or the Merry Beggars, act 2

Verb

lage (third-person singular simple present lages, present participle laging, simple past and past participle laged)

  1. (UK, obsolete, thieves' cant) To drink.
    • I saye by the Salomon I will lage it of with a gage of Benebouse; then cut to my nose watch.1566, Thomas Harman, A Caveat or Warning for Common Cursitors

Forms of lage

third-person singular presentlages
present participlelaging
past participlelaged
pastlaged

Origin of lage

Probably from Irish lag (“weak”), from Old Irish lac, from Proto-Celtic *laggos, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)leh₁g-.

Phrases with lage

Questions about lage

What does lage mean?
Lage means water; any weak alcoholic beverage.
What part of speech is lage?
Lage can be a noun or a verb.

Words near lage in the dictionary

  1. Lagawa
  2. Lagawe
  3. Lagayan
  4. Lagden
  5. Lagdungan
  6. lage
  7. Lage Zwaluwe
  8. lagena
  9. lagenae
  10. lagenar
  11. lagenar macula

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