Wage
Chamber's Etymological of the English Language · 1895 · p. 563
waj, v.t. to pledge to engage in as if by pledge to cany on, esp. of war to venture. —« a gage or stake that for which one labours wages. [O- Fr. wager (Fr, gager), to pledge. A doublet of Gage.] Wager, wAj'er, «. that which is waged or pledged something staked on the i ue of anything that on which bets are laid {law an offer to make — oath. v.t. to hazard on the i ue of an> thing V.u to lay a wager.- «. Wag'erer. [0. Fr waigtere (Fr. gageure Wage.]
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