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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Set :: Set (n.) That which is staked; a wager; a venture; a stake; hence, a game at venture..
Compurgation :: Compurgation (v. t.) The act or practice of justifying or confirming a man's veracity by the oath of others; -- called also wager of law. See Purgation; also Wager of law, under Wager..
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..
Wager :: Wager (v. t.) To hazard on the issue of a contest, or on some question that is to be decided, or on some casualty; to lay; to stake; to bet..
Wager :: Wager (v. t.) That on which bets are laid; the subject of a bet.
Go :: Go (v. t.) To bet or wager; as, I'll go you a shilling..
Staked :: Stake (v. t.) That which is laid down as a wager; that which is staked or hazarded; a pledge.
Ley :: Ley (v. t. & i.) To lay; to wager.
Better :: Better (n.) One who bets or lays a wager.
Gaming :: Gaming (n.) The act or practice of playing games for stakes or wagers; gambling.
Wage :: Wage (v. t.) To pledge; to hazard on the event of a contest; to stake; to bet, to lay; to wager; as, to wage a dollar..
Staktometer :: Stakeholder (n.) The holder of a stake; one with whom the bets are deposited when a wager is laid.
Lay :: Lay (v. t.) To deposit, as a wager; to stake; to risk..
Revie :: Revie (v. i.) To exceed an adversary's wager in card playing.
Hedge :: Hedge (v. i.) To reduce the risk of a wager by making a bet against the side or chance one has bet on.
Pawn :: Pawn (v. t.) To pledge for the fulfillment of a promise; to stake; to risk; to wager; to hazard.
Bet :: Bet (v. t.) To stake or pledge upon the event of a contingent issue; to wager.
Plank :: Plank (v. t.) To lay down, as on a plank or table; to stake or pay cash; as, to plank money in a wager..
Pawn :: Pawn (n.) A stake hazarded in a wager.
Revie :: Revie (v. t.) To meet a wager on, as on the taking of a trick, with a higher wager..
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