These are the meanings of the letters WARDAGE when you unscramble them.
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Adage (n.)
An old saying, which has obtained credit by long use; a proverb.
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Award (v. t.)
To give by sentence or judicial determination; to assign or apportion, after careful regard to the nature of the case; to adjudge; as, the arbitrators awarded damages to the complainant.
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Award (v. i.)
To determine; to make an award.
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Award (v. t.)
A judgment, sentence, or final decision. Specifically: The decision of arbitrators in a case submitted.
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Award (v. t.)
The paper containing the decision of arbitrators; that which is warded.
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Aware (a.)
Watchful; vigilant or on one's guard against danger or difficulty.
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Aware (a.)
Apprised; informed; cognizant; conscious; as, he was aware of the enemy's designs.
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Grade (n.)
A step or degree in any series, rank, quality, order; relative position or standing; as, grades of military rank; crimes of every grade; grades of flour.
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Grade (n.)
The rate of ascent or descent; gradient; deviation from a level surface to an inclined plane; -- usually stated as so many feet per mile, or as one foot rise or fall in so many of horizontal distance; as, a heavy grade; a grade of twenty feet per mile, or of 1 in 264.
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Grade (n.)
A graded ascending, descending, or level portion of a road; a gradient.
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Grade (n.)
The result of crossing a native stock with some better breed. If the crossbreed have more than three fourths of the better blood, it is called high grade.
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Grade (v. t.)
To arrange in order, steps, or degrees, according to size, quality, rank, etc.
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Grade (v. t.)
To reduce to a level, or to an evenly progressive ascent, as the line of a canal or road.
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Grade (v. t.)
To cross with some better breed; to improve the blood of.
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Grade (n.)
A harsh scraping or cutting; a grating.
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Raged (imp. & p. p.)
of Rage
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Wader (n.)
One who, or that which, wades.
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Wader (n.)
Any long-legged bird that wades in the water in search of food, especially any species of limicoline or grallatorial birds; -- called also wading bird. See Illust. g, under Aves.
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Waged (imp. & p. p.)
of Wage
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Wager (v. t.)
Something deposited, laid, or hazarded on the event of a contest or an unsettled question; a bet; a stake; a pledge.
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Wager (v. t.)
A contract by which two parties or more agree that a certain sum of money, or other thing, shall be paid or delivered to one of them, on the happening or not happening of an uncertain event.
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Wager (v. t.)
That on which bets are laid; the subject of a bet.
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Wager (v. t.)
To hazard on the issue of a contest, or on some question that is to be decided, or on some casualty; to lay; to stake; to bet.
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Wager (v. i.)
To make a bet; to lay a wager.