Definition of Gadge

1. an instrument of torture [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Gadge

gadbees
gadded
gadder
gadders
gaddest
gaddeth
gaddi
gadding
gaddingly
gaddis
gaddish
gade
gades
gadflies
gadfly
gadge (current term)
gadges
gadget
gadgetbahn
gadgetbahnen
gadgeteer
gadgeteers
gadgetless
gadgetries
gadgetry
gadgets
gadgety
gadgie
gadgies
gadhelic

Literary usage of Gadge

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Reports of Cases Principally on Practice and Pleading, Determined in the by Great Britain Court of King's Bench, William Henry Ashurst, William Murray Mansfield (1823)
"Bell, 13 East, 355. Tidd, 7th ed. 337. 308. MOORBY against gadge and HANKIE, Bail of gadge. ... gadge."

2. The Ancient Records of the Town of Ipswich: Vol. 1, from 1634 to 1650by Ipswich (Mass.), George A. Schofield by Ipswich (Mass.), George A. Schofield (1899)
"Given and Granted unto John gadge, six acres of Land, more or less, ... the Lands of John gadge on the one side and Thomas Clarke on the other, ..."

3. Court Leet Records, V. 1, A.D. 1550- by Southampton (England). Court leet, William Frederick Masom, John Stephen Westlake (1907)
"... standerd or gadge for brewers Casks we knowe not in whome is the fault for they ... wch is muche lesse in the Assize thereof then this our gadge ..."

4. An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language: To which is Prefixed, a by John Jamieson (1887)
"Search, scrutiny, look-out ; watch or hunt for what will benefit oneself; as, "He's aye on the gadge," West of S. To gadge, GEDOE, va 1. ..."

5. Extracts from the Records of the Burgh of Glasgow ... A. D. 1573-17 by Glasgow (Scotland), James David Marwick, Robert Renwick (1908)
"... and that they doe find them'Ine<lain- baiters to have raised their said dame a considerable bight above the said gadge and measure that was formerly ..."

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