These are the meanings of the letters EAGTW when you unscramble them.
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Gate (n.)
A large door or passageway in the wall of a city, of an inclosed field or place, or of a grand edifice, etc.; also, the movable structure of timber, metal, etc., by which the passage can be closed.
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Gate (n.)
An opening for passage in any inclosing wall, fence, or barrier; or the suspended framework which closes or opens a passage. Also, figuratively, a means or way of entrance or of exit.
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Gate (n.)
A door, valve, or other device, for stopping the passage of water through a dam, lock, pipe, etc.
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Gate (n.)
The places which command the entrances or access; hence, place of vantage; power; might.
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Gate (n.)
In a lock tumbler, the opening for the stump of the bolt to pass through or into.
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Gate (n.)
The channel or opening through which metal is poured into the mold; the ingate.
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Gate (n.)
The waste piece of metal cast in the opening; a sprue or sullage piece.
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Gate (v. t.)
To supply with a gate.
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Gate (v. t.)
To punish by requiring to be within the gates at an earlier hour than usual.
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Gate (n.)
A way; a path; a road; a street (as in Highgate).
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Gate (n.)
Manner; gait.
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Wage (v. t.)
To pledge; to hazard on the event of a contest; to stake; to bet, to lay; to wager; as, to wage a dollar.
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Wage (v. t.)
To expose one's self to, as a risk; to incur, as a danger; to venture; to hazard.
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Wage (v. t.)
To engage in, as a contest, as if by previous gage or pledge; to carry on, as a war.
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Wage (v. t.)
To adventure, or lay out, for hire or reward; to hire out.
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Wage (v. t.)
To put upon wages; to hire; to employ; to pay wages to.
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Wage (v. t.)
To give security for the performance of.
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Wage (v. i.)
To bind one's self; to engage.
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Wage (v. t.)
That which is staked or ventured; that for which one incurs risk or danger; prize; gage.
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Wage (v. t.)
That for which one labors; meed; reward; stipulated payment for service performed; hire; pay; compensation; -- at present generally used in the plural. See Wages.