| 释义 |
▪ I. gadge, n. ? pseudo-arch.
Used by Browning as the name of some instrument of torture.
Perh. a mistaken phonetic apprehension of gagge, old spelling of gag n.1
1845Browning Soul's Trag. i. 332 The dead back-weight of the beheading axe! The glowing trip-hook, thumb-screws and the gadge!
▪ II. gadge, v. Sc.|gadʒ|
intr. (See quot.)
1719Ramsay 2nd Answ. Hamilton iii, It sets ye well indeed to gadge! Ibid. Gloss., Gadge, to dictate impertinently, talk idly with a stupid gravity.
▪ III. gadge
obs. f. gage n.1 and Sc. f. gauge. |