Definition of wager

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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..

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Vie :: Vie (n.) A contest for superiority; competition; rivalry; strife; also, a challenge; a wager..
Dowagerism :: Dowagerism (n.) The rank or condition of a dowager; formality, as that of a dowager. Also used figuratively..
Bet :: Bet (v. t.) To stake or pledge upon the event of a contingent issue; to wager.
Revie :: Revie (v. t.) To meet a wager on, as on the taking of a trick, with a higher wager..
Impone :: Impone (v. t.) To stake; to wager; to pledge.
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..
Wager :: Wager (v. t.) That on which bets are laid; the subject of a bet.
Stake :: Stake (v. t.) To put at hazard upon the issue of competition, or upon a future contingency; to wager; to pledge..
Ley :: Ley (v. t. & i.) To lay; to wager.
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..
Better :: Better (n.) One who bets or lays a wager.
Battel :: Battel (n.) A single combat; as, trial by battel. See Wager of battel, under Wager..
Split :: Split (n.) the division by a player of one hand of blackjack into two hands, allowed when the first two cards dealt to a player have the same value; the player is usually obliged to increase the amount wagered by placing a sum equal to the original bet on the new hand thus created..
Depone :: Depone (v. t.) To lay, as a stake; to 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.
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 (v. t.) To pledge for the fulfillment of a promise; to stake; to risk; to wager; to hazard.
Bet :: Bet (n.) That which is laid, staked, or pledged, as between two parties, upon the event of a contest or any contingent issue; the act of giving such a pledge; a wager..
Gage :: Gage (n.) To give or deposit as a pledge or security for some act; to wage or wager; to pawn or pledge.
Revie :: Revie (v. i.) To exceed an adversary's wager in card playing.
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