pregage

pregage verb: to preengage.

Verb

pregage (third-person singular simple present pregages, present participle pregaging, simple past and past participle pregaged)

(obsolete) To preengage.
- by oath pregaged to the pope1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church-history of Britain; […], London: […] Iohn Williams […], →OCLC, (please specify |book=I to XI)
- Ninthly, that the members of that Council of Trent, both Bishops and Abbots, were by Oath pregaged to the Pope, "to defend and maintain his authority against all the world."1670, Peter Heylyn, Ecclesia Restavrata: Or, the History of the Reformation of the Church of England, page 148
(US) To gauge beforehand; to make an initial estimate of size, magnitude or position.
- At the outset, however, he either failed utterly to pregage the possibilities of the method, or else through modesty declined to let his imagination take wings; for we find him, in an interview published in McClure's Magazine in 1897, when a considerable measure of success had been attained...1923, Henry Smith Williams, The Story of Modern Science- Volume 9, page 39
- As in most rail renewal operations, a plate setting device is used to pregage the tie plates for the DUN-RITE GAGING MACHINE.1952, Railway Engineering and Maintenance - Volume 48, page 1029

pregage (not comparable)

(rare) Before gauging.
- removes parts one at a time from the bottom of the loading tray and cycles them to a probe station for a pregage check to ensure that they are within the required size.1982, Production Engineering - Volume 29, page 55
- When a gaging machine is used, the pregage setting is 1/8 to 1/4 in. tighter than the desired gage.1985, The Track Cyclopedia, page 181

The upper rolls pregage the plastics sheet and the lower ones widen it and produce the desired thickness.1953, SPE Journal - Volumes 9-10, page 34:
Still others have a series of psychological tests to pregage the likelihood of success of the joint venture.1970, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Small Business. Subcommittee on Urban and Rural Economic Development, The Impact of...

third-person singular present	pregages
present participle	pregaging
past participle	pregaged
past	pregaged

What does pregage mean?: Pregage means to preengage.
How do you use pregage in a sentence?: The upper rolls pregage the plastics sheet and the lower ones widen it and produce the desired thickness.
What part of speech is pregage?: Pregage can be a verb or an adjective.
What is the past tense of pregage?: The past tense of pregage is pregaged.

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