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"glosses": [
"A pint pot."
],
"links": [
[
"pint",
"pint"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(archaic, UK, slang) A pint pot."
],
"tags": [
"UK",
"archaic",
"slang"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"British English",
"English metonyms",
"English slang",
"English terms with archaic senses"
],
"glosses": [
"A drink."
],
"links": [
[
"drink",
"drink"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(archaic, UK, slang, metonymically) A drink."
],
"tags": [
"UK",
"archaic",
"metonymically",
"slang"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"British English",
"English slang",
"English terms with archaic senses",
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1834, William Harrison Ainsworth, Rookwood, volume 2, page 353",
"text": "Troll us a stave, my antediluvian file, and in the mean time tip me a gage of fogus, Jerry",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A tobacco pipe."
],
"links": [
[
"tobacco pipe",
"tobacco pipe"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(archaic, UK, slang) A tobacco pipe."
],
"tags": [
"UK",
"archaic",
"slang"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"British English",
"English slang",
"English terms with archaic senses"
],
"glosses": [
"A chamberpot."
],
"links": [
[
"chamberpot",
"chamberpot"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(archaic, UK, slang) A chamberpot."
],
"tags": [
"UK",
"archaic",
"slang"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"British English",
"English slang",
"English terms with archaic senses",
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1864, John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary, page 140",
"text": "GAGE, a small quantity of anything; as “a gage of tobacco,” meaning a. pipeful; “a gage of gin,” a glassful.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A small quantity of anything."
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(archaic, UK, slang) A small quantity of anything."
],
"tags": [
"UK",
"archaic",
"slang"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"British English",
"English Thieves' Cant",
"English terms with obsolete senses",
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1641–42, Richard Brome, A Jovial Crew, or the Merry Beggars, act 2",
"text": "I bowse no lage, but a whole gage / Of this I'll bowse to you.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1747, Helen Berry, anonymous quotee, The Life and Character of Moll King, late mistress of King's Coffee House in Covent Garden, quoted in \"Rethinking Politeness in Eighteenth-Century England\", Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, published 2001, page 75, volume 11, series 6",
"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.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A quart pot."
],
"links": [
[
"quart",
"quart"
],
[
"pot",
"pot"
]
],
"qualifier": "thieves' cant",
"raw_glosses": [
"(obsolete, UK, thieves' cant) A quart pot."
],
"tags": [
"UK",
"obsolete"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ɡeɪd͡ʒ/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-eɪdʒ"
},
{
"homophone": "gauge"
},
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"tags": [
"Southern-England"
],
"text": "Audio (Southern England)"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"gage"
],
"word": "gage"
}
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