Several efforts were made in this direction, and though not all of them survive to this day, the Brown & Sharpe wire gage system was eventually adopted as the American standard and is still in common use today.

The weather gage, the advantage of having a following wind, was an important factor in naval battles, particularly to the attackers.

It was about 4: 00 pm, over 6 hours since the two fleets had first sighted each other, when the British — who had the weather gage, and therefore the initiative — opened their attack.

Frustration with a strap transducer which was malfunctioning due to an error in wiring the strain gage bridges caused him to remark – " If there is any way to do it wrong, he will " – referring to the technician who had wired the bridges at the Lab.

On 7 June, he surprised it when resupplying on the English coast ; it was only saved from a severe defeat in the Battle of Solebay by a sudden turning of the wind, causing De Ruyter to lose the weather gage.

One of the last times that weather gage was perhaps a factor in a naval engagement was in the Battle of the Denmark Strait in 1941 where the German battleship Bismarck and the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen held the weather gage over the British battleship HMS Prince of Wales and the battlecruiser HMS Hood.

An alternative practice imported from Norman law was the usufructory pledge of real property known as a gage of land.

* the living gage ( Norm vif gage, Welsh prid ), whereby the estate ’ s accruing rents, profits, and crops went toward reducing the debt ( that is, the debt was self-redeeming );

By the 13th century — in England and on the continent — the gage was limited to a term of years and contained a forfeiture proviso ( pactum commissorium ) providing that if after the term the debt was not repaid, title was forfeited to the lender, i. e., the term of years would expand automatically into a fee simple.

However, the royal courts increasingly did not respect shifting fees since there was no livery of seisin ( i. e., no formal conveyance ), nor did they recognize that tenure could be enlarged, so by the 14th century the simple gage for years was invalid in England ( and Scotland and the near continent ).

The solution was to merge the latter-day wadset and gage for years into a single transaction embodied in two instruments: ( 1 ) the absolute conveyance ( the charter ) in fee or for years to the lender ; ( 2 ) an indenture or bond ( the defeasance ) reciting the loan and providing that if it was repaid the land would reinvest in the borrower, but if not the lender would retain title.

The debt was absolute in form, and unlike a gage was not conditionally dependent on its repayment solely from raising and selling crops or livestock or simply giving the crops and livestock raised on the gaged land.

D ' Orvilliers, who had orders to avoid battle, was cut off from Brest but retained the weather gage.

Whether or not the distress was levied for rent or for livestock damage feasant, the owner of the animals could obtain their release by giving “ gage and pledge ”-a form of security that the damage would be made good.

Vouz n ' avez jamais, je gage " in Act 2 ' for her.

Eugene Bourdon fulfilled the need for high pressure measurement with his Bourdon tube pressure gage.

Then perhaps adjusting the calibration tolerance for the gage would be a better solution.

: He challenge makes for strength, and offereth there his gage,

Under a gage the borrower ( gagor ) conveyed possession but not ownership to the lender ( gagee ) for an unlimited term until redemption.

* A gage is the root for both a mortgage and vifgage.

The purpose of the annual accounting is to gage over a number of years if an agency's reduction plan for greenhouse gases is effective.

The sheet metal gauge ( sometimes spelled gage ) indicates the standard thickness of sheet metal for a specific material.

Despite a fallout in popularity among machine shops, cast iron remains the most popular material for surface masters ( different usage from a surface plate ) among laboratory metrologists, machine builders, gage makers, and other high-accuracy industries that have a requirement for gauging flatness.

The first go-no-go snap gage for checking thread rolls was invented in 1943 to speed production of parts during World War Two.

The land would be made over to a gagee ( pridwr ) for a period of four years, and if the land had not been redeemed by the gagor ( owner ) or his heirs at the end of the four years, the gage could then be renewed for additional four-year periods.

Since leadership itself might have great need to gage the direction and intensity of public attitudes, to strengthen its own morale and for decisionmaking purposes, it would be most advantageous to have more to go on than personal opinions about the opinions of the public and other leadership groups.

The easiest method for measuring flatness is with a height gage positioned on a surface plate.

Manufacturers set typical gage pressure gauges to read ZERO at sea level as a standard, assuming designers will make allowances for the atmospheric pressure calculations themselves.

With the consent of the lord and the kindred, the landowner could use the living gage ( prid ).

Historians have considered this view and most agree that Bridport's retirement was premature: In 1827 James noted that the scattered remains of the French fleet could easily have been attacked by the unengaged British rear with the advantage of the weather gage, while William Laird Clowes wrote in 1901 that " We may be pretty sure that had a Nelson, a Hawke or even a Boscawen commanded on the occasion, the fleet of Villaret would have been annihilated.

Muir, Merritt Roe Smith, and Robert B. Gordon all agree that before 1832 both Simeon North and John Hall were able to mass-produce complex machines with moving parts ( guns ) using a system that entailed the use of rough-forged parts, with a milling machine that milled the parts to near-correct size, and that were then " filed to gage by hand with the aid of filing jigs.

Gauge blocks ( left in each picture, under optical flats ) being used to measure the height of a ball bearing and a plug gage using interferometry.

* Surface gage — an ungraduated comparison measuring tool that performs much the same function as the vernier height gage.

The leading Dutch politician, Johan de Witt, ordered Van Wassenaer to attack the English aggressively during a period of stable eastern winds which would have given the Dutch the weather gage.

A ship with the weather gage, turning downwind to attack, may alter course at will in order to bring starboard and port guns to appropriate elevations.

In the light south-westerly breeze the fleets slowly closed, Russell from the north east, Tourville, with the weather gage, from the south west, on a starboard tack to bring his line of battle into contact with Russell ’ s.

Tourville re-inforced his centre, the White squadron under his own command, by bringing Coetlogon's division forward in order to engage Russell ’ s Red squadron with something approaching equal numbers, while he refused and extended the line of his White squadron to avoid them being turned and overwhelmed by superior numbers ; the rest of his Blue squadron he held back also to keep the advantage of the weather gage.

* When geometry is normally controlled by gage sizes or by code ( e. g. stock materials ), the dimension ( s ) shall be included with the gage or code number in parentheses following or below the dimension.

Mean annual river flow at a mid-river gage is 344 ft³ / s, with the highest mean monthly flows occurring in May ( 939 ft³ / s ) and the lowest mean monthly flow in September ( 54. 7 ft³ / s ).

Yet our economy clings inexorably to recognition of managerial status as the gage of success.

Check the temperature gage and be sure it is working.

you're tooling around full of gage in your hot rods, gorging yourselves on pizza and playing pinball in the taverns and generally behaving like Ubermenschen.

Gauge pressure ( also spelled gage pressure ) is the pressure relative to the local atmospheric or ambient pressure.

For example, a gage with 3 % manufacturer-stated accuracy can be changed to 4 % so that a 1 % accuracy standard can be used at 4: 1.

If the gage is used in an application requiring 16 % accuracy, having the gage accuracy reduced to 4 % will not affect the accuracy of the final measurements.

But if the final measurement requires 10 % accuracy, then the 3 % gage never can be better than 3. 3: 1.

* pignus " proof, token, pledge " > wadius, from Gothic wadi ( French gage " pledge ", Occitan gadi " will ( testament )"; vs. Romansh pegn, Italian pegno, Occitan penha )

A plum or gage is a stone fruit tree in the genus Prunus, subgenus Prunus.

In order to feed the giant sawmill it had established in Carter County, which required logs from 70 acres of land each day to keep it running, the Missouri Lumber and Mining Company laid down miles of narrow gage railroads that radiated outward beyond Carter County and into neighboring Reynolds, Wayne, Butler, Ripley and Shannon counties.

* St. Joseph River stream gage at Mottville

Photo of a gauge inspector and the Manville, New Jersey gage house built into the County Route 533 ( New Jersey ) | North Main Street / CR-533 bridge abutment during the Raritan River flood of December 31, 1948.

* Great Northern History, photos and O gage model railroad.

The weather gage ( sometimes spelled weather gauge ) is the advantageous position of a fighting sailing vessel relative to another.

A ship is said to possess the weather gage if it is in any position, at sea, upwind of the other vessel.