Gage

1. Something, such as a glove or other pledge, thrown down as a challenge to combat (now usually figurative).
2. Something valuable deposited as a guarantee or pledge; security, ransom.

1. To give or deposit as a pledge or security; to pawn.
2. To wager, to bet.
3. To bind by pledge, or security; to engage.

1. A measure; a standard of measure; an instrument to determine dimensions, distance, or capacity; a standard
2. An act of measuring.
3. An estimate.
4. Any instrument for ascertaining or regulating the level, state, dimensions or forms of things
5. A thickness of sheet metal or wire designated by any of several numbering schemes.
6. The distance between the rails of a railway.
7. A semi-norm; a function that assigns a non-negative size to all vectors in a vector space.
8. The number of stitches per inch, centimetre, or other unit of distance.
9. 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.

10. The depth to which a vessel sinks in the water.
11. (plastering) The quantity of plaster of Paris used with common plaster to make it set more quickly.
12. 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.
13. 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.
14. (by extension) A shotgun (synecdoche for 12 gauge shotgun, the most common chambering for combat and hunting shotguns).
15. A tunnel-like ear piercing consisting of a hollow ring embedded in the lobe.

1. To measure or determine with a gauge; to measure the capacity of.
2. To estimate.
3. To appraise the character or ability of; to judge of.
4. To draw into equidistant gathers by running a thread through it.
5. To mix (a quantity of ordinary plaster) with a quantity of plaster of Paris.
6. To chip, hew or polish (stones, bricks, etc) to a standard size and/or shape.

noun

A subspecies of plum, Prunus domestica subsp. italica.

1. A quart pot.
2. A pint pot.
3. (metonymically) A drink.
4. A tobacco pipe.
5. A chamberpot.
6. A small quantity of anything.
7. Marijuana