gage
noun
something, as a glove, thrown down by a medieval knight in token of challenge to combat.
Example Sentences
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"It changes the atmosphere when a heckler goes too far, but it really is about gaging, do the people around me want me to keep going?"
From BBC ● Feb. 14, 2025
It’s just a matter of talking through it and gaging the draft and the people that are coming up and who’s available.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 2, 2014
One hesitates to call an opponent of marriage en gaging, but Germaine Greer is certainly that.
From Time Magazine Archive
The most gaging comment of all came from near the base of the famed extinct volcano Fujiyama, where a reporter interviewed extinct Foreign Minister Yosuke Matsuoka.
From Time Magazine Archive
Not so long as all this they gazed at each other, measured, took ground, gaging each the adversary opposite.
From The Purchase Price by Emerson Hough
