Thanks for using this online dictionary, we have been helping millions of people improve their use of the english language with its free online services. English definition of wager is as below...

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..

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

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

Hedge :: Hedge (v. i.) To reduce the risk of a wager by making a bet against the side or chance one has bet on.

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..

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..

Staked :: Stake (v. t.) That which is laid down as a wager; that which is staked or hazarded; a pledge.

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

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..

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..

Play :: Play (v. t.) To engage in, or go together with, as a contest for amusement or for a wager or prize; as, to play a game at baseball..

Wagering :: Wagering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Wage.

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

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

Vie :: Vie (n.) A contest for superiority; competition; rivalry; strife; also, a challenge; a wager..

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

Lay :: Lay (v. t.) To deposit, as a wager; to stake; to risk..

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..

Random Fonts

Most Popular