gage

Something, such as a glove or other pledge, thrown down as a challenge to combat (now usually figurative).

Something valuable deposited as a guarantee or pledge; security, ransom.

To give or deposit as a pledge or security; to pawn.

To wager, to bet.

To bind by pledge, or security; to engage.

A measure; a standard of measure; an instrument to determine dimensions, distance, or capacity; a standard

An act of measuring.

An estimate.

Any instrument for ascertaining or regulating the level, state, dimensions or forms of things

A thickness of sheet metal or wire designated by any of several numbering schemes.

The distance between the rails of a railway.

A semi-norm; a function that assigns a non-negative size to all vectors in a vector space.

The number of stitches per inch, centimetre, or other unit of distance.

Relative positions of two or more vessels with reference to the wind.

“A vessel has the weather gauge of another when on the windward side of it, and the lee gauge when on the lee side of it.”

The depth to which a vessel sinks in the water.

(plastering) The quantity of plaster of Paris used with common plaster to make it set more quickly.

That part of a shingle, slate, or tile, which is exposed to the weather, when laid; also, one course of such shingles, slates, or tiles.

A unit of measurement which describes how many spheres of bore diameter of a shotgun can be had from one pound of lead; 12 gauge is roughly equivalent to .75 caliber.

(by extension) A shotgun (synecdoche for 12 gauge shotgun, the most common chambering for combat and hunting shotguns).

A tunnel-like ear piercing consisting of a hollow ring embedded in the lobe.

To measure or determine with a gauge; to measure the capacity of.

To estimate.

To appraise the character or ability of; to judge of.

To draw into equidistant gathers by running a thread through it.

To mix (a quantity of ordinary plaster) with a quantity of plaster of Paris.

To chip, hew or polish (stones, bricks, etc) to a standard size and/or shape.

A subspecies of plum, Prunus domestica subsp. italica.

A quart pot.

A pint pot.

(metonymically) A drink.

A tobacco pipe.

A chamberpot.

A small quantity of anything.

Marijuana