gage
noun
something, as a glove, thrown down by a medieval knight in token of challenge to combat.
gages
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present tense formof gage (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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The river gage shows the river may reach 192.58 feet The Chehalis Basin Flood Authority has flood inundation maps & river gages for the region on its website.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 7, 2022
According to stream gages, as much as 58 percent of the water in the Gunnison River — a prominent Colorado River tributary — comes not from snowpack on the peaks above but from groundwater.
From Scientific American ● Jul. 20, 2015
It would also raise the funding for stream gages, which monitor water levels and collect other data, by $7.2 million.
From Science Magazine ● Apr. 12, 2013
Readings have come in from deep ocean gages deployed since the 2004 tsunami in Banda Acha in Japan and around Wake Island.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 11, 2011
Everybody began attending to the paraphernalia of a challenge, the usual sealing of the gages with signets and so on, and the fixing of the date.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
