(law) 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.
(law) An offer to make oath.
Agent noun of wage; one who wages.
Something deposited, laid, or hazarded on the event of a contest or an unsettled question; a bet; a stake; a pledge.
That on which bets are laid; the subject of a bet.
verb
(intransitive, figuratively) To suppose; to dare say.
(transitive) To bet something; to put it up as collateral.
