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.
A subspecies of plum, Prunus domestica subsp. italica.
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
A thickness of sheet metal or wire designated by any of several numbering schemes.
The distance between the rails of a railway.
A semi-norm; a function that assigns a non-negative size to all vectors in a vector space.
The number of stitches per inch, centimetre, or other unit of distance.
Relative positions of two or more vessels with reference to the wind.
A vessel has the weather gauge of another when on the windward side of it, and the lee gauge when on the lee side of it.
The depth to which a vessel sinks in the water.
(plastering) The quantity of plaster of Paris used with common plaster to make it set more quickly.
That part of a shingle, slate, or tile, which is exposed to the weather, when laid; also, one course of such shingles, slates, or tiles.
A unit of measurement which describes how many spheres of bore diameter of a shotgun can be had from one pound of lead; 12 gauge is roughly equivalent to .75 caliber.
(by extension) A shotgun (synecdoche for 12 gauge shotgun, the most common chambering for combat and hunting shotguns).
A tunnel-like ear piercing consisting of a hollow ring embedded in the lobe.