GAGE, in nautical language. When one ship is to windward of another, she is said to have the weather-gage of such ship. The number of feet that a vessel sinks in the water is likewise called the ship's gage; and this is found by driving a nail into a pike near the end, and putting it down beside the rudder till the nail catch hold under it; then as many feet as the pike is under the water is the ship's gage.