Definition of wager

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Wager (v. t.) Something deposited, laid, or hazarded on the event of a contest or an unsettled question; a bet; a stake; a pledge..

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Staktometer :: Stakeholder (n.) The holder of a stake; one with whom the bets are deposited when a wager is laid.
Lay :: Lay (v. t.) A wager.
Set :: Set (v. t.) To stake at play; to wager; to risk.
Gaming :: Gaming (n.) The act or practice of playing games for stakes or wagers; gambling.
Vie :: Vie (n.) A contest for superiority; competition; rivalry; strife; also, a challenge; a wager..
Revie :: Revie (v. i.) To exceed an adversary's wager in card playing.
Wagered :: Wagered (imp. & p. p.) of Wage.
Lay :: Lay (v. t.) To deposit, as a wager; to stake; to risk..
Revie :: Revie (v. t.) To meet a wager on, as on the taking of a trick, with a higher wager..
Hedge :: Hedge (v. i.) To reduce the risk of a wager by making a bet against the side or chance one has bet on.
Battel :: Battel (n.) A single combat; as, trial by battel. See Wager of battel, under Wager..
Thimblerig :: Thimblerig (v. t.) To swindle by means of small cups or thimbles, and a pea or small ball placed under one of them and quickly shifted to another, the victim laying a wager that he knows under which cup it is; hence, to cheat by any trick..
Stake :: Stake (v. t.) To put at hazard upon the issue of competition, or upon a future contingency; to wager; to pledge..
Dowager :: Dowager (n.) A widow endowed, or having a jointure; a widow who either enjoys a dower from her deceased husband, or has property of her own brought by her to her husband on marriage, and settled on her after his decease..
Roulette :: Roulette (n.) A game of chance, in which a small ball is made to move round rapidly on a circle divided off into numbered red and black spaces, the one on which it stops indicating the result of a variety of wagers permitted by the game..
Go :: Go (v. t.) To bet or wager; as, I'll go you a shilling..
Dowagerism :: Dowagerism (n.) The rank or condition of a dowager; formality, as that of a dowager. Also used figuratively..
Depone :: Depone (v. t.) To lay, as a stake; to wager..
Vie :: Vie (v. t.) To stake; to wager.
Impone :: Impone (v. t.) To stake; to wager; to pledge.
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