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Definition of wager

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Wager (v. t.) A contract by which two parties or more agree that a certain sum of money, or other thing, shall be paid or delivered to one of them, on the happening or not happening of an uncertain event..

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Pawn :: Pawn (n.) A stake hazarded in a wager.

Compurgator :: Compurgator (n.) One who bears testimony or swears to the veracity or innocence of another. See Purgation; also Wager of law, under Wager..

Lay :: Lay (v. t.) A wager.

Go :: Go (v. t.) To bet or wager; as, I'll go you a shilling..

Set :: Set (n.) That which is staked; a wager; a venture; a stake; hence, a game at venture..

Dowagerism :: Dowagerism (n.) The rank or condition of a dowager; formality, as that of a dowager. Also used figuratively..

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..

Bet :: Bet (v. t.) To stake or pledge upon the event of a contingent issue; to wager.

Ley :: Ley (v. t. & i.) To lay; to wager.

Wagerer :: Wagerer (n.) One who wagers, or lays a bet..

Better :: Better (n.) One who bets or lays a wager.

Wagered :: Wagered (imp. & p. p.) of Wage.

Vie :: Vie (v. t.) To stake; to wager.

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

Lay :: Lay (v. i.) To lay a wager; to bet.

Set :: Set (v. t.) To stake at play; to wager; to risk.

Pawn :: Pawn (v. t.) To pledge for the fulfillment of a promise; to stake; to risk; to wager; to hazard.

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..

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..

Gage :: Gage (n.) To give or deposit as a pledge or security for some act; to wage or wager; to pawn or pledge.