These are the meanings of the letters HEWGAG when you unscramble them.
- Gage (n.)
A glove, cap, or the like, cast on the ground as a challenge to combat, and to be taken up by the accepter of the challenge; a challenge; a defiance.
- Gage (n.)
A measure or standard. See Gauge, n.
- Gage (n.)
A pledge or pawn; something laid down or given as a security for the performance of some act by the person depositing it, and forfeited by nonperformance; security.
- Gage (n.)
A variety of plum; as, the greengage; also, the blue gage, frost gage, golden gage, etc., having more or less likeness to the greengage. See Greengage.
- Gage (n.)
To bind by pledge, or security; to engage.
- Gage (n.)
To give or deposit as a pledge or security for some act; to wage or wager; to pawn or pledge.
- Gage (v. t.)
To measure. See Gauge, v. t.
- Wage (v. i.)
To bind one's self; to engage.
- 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.
- Wage (v. t.)
That which is staked or ventured; that for which one incurs risk or danger; prize; gage.
- Wage (v. t.)
To adventure, or lay out, for hire or reward; to hire out.
- Wage (v. t.)
To engage in, as a contest, as if by previous gage or pledge; to carry on, as a war.
- Wage (v. t.)
To expose one's self to, as a risk; to incur, as a danger; to venture; to hazard.
- Wage (v. t.)
To give security for the performance of.
- 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.
- Wage (v. t.)
To put upon wages; to hire; to employ; to pay wages to.