gage
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When gage helps
Base Score
1
Before any board-specific bonus
Unique Letters
3
A E G
Two-Letter Start
GA
Useful for systematic scans
Ending
GE
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- 4 letters
- 3 unique letters
- GA start
- GE ending
- repeated letters
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- gage is a four-letter word, so it is worth 1 point when accepted.
- It uses 3 unique letters, so it can fit boards that include a, e, g plus any remaining hive letters.
- Watch the repeated-letter pattern (G x2); those are easy points to miss when scanning quickly.
- The GE ending makes this a useful pattern check after you try the GA start.
- BuzzyWords has saved this word in 1 published Daily snapshot.
Pronunciation
noun
Something, such as a glove or other pledge, thrown down as a challenge to combat (now usually figurative).
noun
Something valuable deposited as a guarantee or pledge; security, ransom.
verb
To give or deposit as a pledge or security; to pawn.
verb
To wager, to bet.
verb
To bind by pledge, or security; to engage.
noun
A measure; a standard of measure; an instrument to determine dimensions, distance, or capacity; a standard
noun
An act of measuring.
noun
An estimate.
noun
Any instrument for ascertaining or regulating the level, state, dimensions or forms of things
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A thickness of sheet metal or wire designated by any of several numbering schemes.
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The distance between the rails of a railway.
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A semi-norm; a function that assigns a non-negative size to all vectors in a vector space.
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The number of stitches per inch, centimetre, or other unit of distance.
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Relative positions of two or more vessels with reference to the wind.
"A vessel has the weather gauge of another when on the windward side of it, and the lee gauge when on the lee side of it."
noun
The depth to which a vessel sinks in the water.
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(plastering) The quantity of plaster of Paris used with common plaster to make it set more quickly.
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That part of a shingle, slate, or tile, which is exposed to the weather, when laid; also, one course of such shingles, slates, or tiles.
noun
A unit of measurement which describes how many spheres of bore diameter of a shotgun can be had from one pound of lead; 12 gauge is roughly equivalent to .75 caliber.
noun
(by extension) A shotgun (synecdoche for 12 gauge shotgun, the most common chambering for combat and hunting shotguns).
noun
A tunnel-like ear piercing consisting of a hollow ring embedded in the lobe.
verb
To measure or determine with a gauge; to measure the capacity of.
verb
To estimate.
verb
To appraise the character or ability of; to judge of.
verb
To draw into equidistant gathers by running a thread through it.
verb
To mix (a quantity of ordinary plaster) with a quantity of plaster of Paris.
verb
To chip, hew or polish (stones, bricks, etc) to a standard size and/or shape.
noun
A subspecies of plum, Prunus domestica subsp. italica.
noun
A quart pot.
noun
A pint pot.
noun
(metonymically) A drink.
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A tobacco pipe.
noun
A chamberpot.
noun
A small quantity of anything.
noun
Marijuana