GAGE, is only now retained as a substantive. As a verb, the G is changed into W, and of gage is formed wage: as to wage law, to wage deliverance, q. d. to give security a thing shall be delivered. See WAGE.
If a person who has distrained be sued for not having delivered what he had taken by distress, he should wage, or gage, or gager, deliverance; that is, put in surety that he will deliver them.