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gage 1. something deposited as security against the fulfilment of an obligation; pledge 2. (formerly) a glove or other object thrown down to indicate a challenge to combat Gage Thomas. 1721--87, British general and governor in America; commander in chief of British forces at Bunker Hill (1775) gage [gāj] Also spelled gauge. (civil engineering) The distance between the inner faces of the rails of railway track; standard gage in the United States is 4 feet 8½ inches (1.44 meters). (design engineering) A device for determining the relative shape or size of an object. The thickness of a metal sheet, a rod, or a wire. (engineering) The minimum sieve size through which most (95% or more) of an aggregate will pass. (ordnance) The interior diameter of the barrel of a shotgun expressed by the number of spherical lead bullets fitting it that are required to make a pound. (textiles) A measure of the density of knit cloth, given in the number of stitches in 1.5 inches (3.8 centimeters). How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Soon after General Gage became governor a great many troops had arrived, and were encamped upon the Common. From this station, as I pleased myself with imagining, Gage may have beheld his disastrous victory on Bunker Hill (unless one of the tri-mountains intervened), and Howe have marked the approaches of Washington's besieging army; although the buildings since erected in the vicinity have shut out almost every object, save the steeple of the Old South, which seems almost within arm's length. The whole country was then a wilderness, and it was necessary to transport the bag gage of the troops by means of the rivers—a devious but practicable route. |
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