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Something, such as a glove or other pledge, thrown down as a challenge to combat (now usually figurative).

Something valuable deposited as a guarantee or pledge; security, ransom.

To give or deposit as a pledge or security; to pawn.

To wager, to bet.

To bind by pledge, or security; to engage.

A measure; a standard of measure; an instrument to determine dimensions, distance, or capacity; a standard

An act of measuring.

An estimate.

Any instrument for ascertaining or regulating the level, state, dimensions or forms of things

To measure or determine with a gauge; to measure the capacity of.

To estimate.

To appraise the character or ability of; to judge of.

To draw into equidistant gathers by running a thread through it.

A subspecies of plum, Prunus domestica subsp. italica.

A quart pot.

A pint pot.

(metonymically) A drink.

A tobacco pipe.