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Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: GAG-GEO |
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GAGE , a pledge, something deposited as security for the performance of an agreement, and liable to be forfeited on failure to carry it out. The word also appears in " engage," and is taken from the O. Fr., as are " wage," payment for services, and " wager," bet, stake, from the collateral O. Fr. waige. These two words are from the Low Lat. wadiare, vadiare, to pledge, vadiunz, classical Lat. vas, vadis, but may be from the old Teutonic cognate base
Gothic
wadi
base
glove or gauntlet as a challenge to a judicial combat, the glove being the " pledge " that the parties would appear on the field
defiance
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