See gage in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"ref": "1951 December 20, William S. Burroughs, “To Allen Ginsberg”, in Oliver Harris, editor, The Letters of William S. Burroughs, 1945–1959, New York: Penguin, published 1993, →ISBN, page 98:",
"text": "Of course, I take a bang or some mud in coffee now and then, and I pick up on gage right smart.",
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"ref": "1973, Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow, 1st US edition, New York: Viking Press, →ISBN, part 1: Beyond the Zero, page 62:",
"text": "Black faces, white tablecloth, gleaming very sharp knives lined up by the saucers... tobacco and \"gage\" smoke richly blended, eye-reddening and tart as wine, yowzah gwine smoke a little ob dis hyah sheeit gib de wrinkles in mah brain a proccess!",
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"ref": "1834, William Harrison Ainsworth, Rookwood, volume 2, page 353:",
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"ref": "1864, John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary, page 140:",
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"ref": "1641–42, Richard Brome, A Jovial Crew, or the Merry Beggars, act 2:",
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"text": "Harry. To pay, Moll, for I must hike.\nMoll. Did you call me, Master?\nHarry. Ay, to pay, in a Whiff.\nMoll. Let me see. There's a Grunter's Gig, is a Si-Buxom; two Cat's Heads, a Win; a Double Gage of Rum Slobber, is Thrums; and a Quartern of Max, is three Megs: — That makes a Traveller all but a Meg.\nHarry. Here, take your Traveller, and tip the Meg to the Kinchin.",
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