Definitions of wager
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To
offer
a
wager.
Wager
of
battle,
an
ancient
law
by
which
disputes
were
to
be
settled
by
personal
contest,
but
which
is
now
abolished.
-
To
stake;
bet.
-
Something
deposited,
laid,
or
hazarded
on
the
event
of
a
contest
or
an
unsettled
question;
a
bet;
a
stake;
a
pledge.
-
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.
-
That
on
which
bets
are
laid;
the
subject
of
a
bet.
-
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.
-
To
hazard
on
the
issue
of
anything.
-
To
stake
on
an
issue.
-
To
make
a
bet;
to
lay
a
wager.
-
To
bet.
-
stake
on
the
outcome
of
an
issue; "
I
bet $
100
on
that
new
horse"; "
She
played
all
her
money
on
the
dark
horse"
-
maintain
with
or
as
if
with
a
bet; "
I
bet
she
will
be
there!"
-
To
hazard
on
the
issue
of
an
event;
to
lay
a
pledge;
to
bet.
-
A
bet;
something
risked
on
an
uncertainty.
-
That
which
is
waged
or
pledged:
something
staked
on
the
issue
of
anything:
that
on
which
bets
are
laid: (
law)
an
offer
to
make
oath.
-
WAGERER.
-
Something
staked
on
an
issue;
bet.
-
The
staking
of
something,
as
money,
upon
the
happening
or
not
happening
of
an
uncertain
event;
a
bet.
-
The
thing
pledged.
-
Something
deposited,
laid
or
hazarded
on
the
event
of
a
contest
or
some
unsettled
question;
a
bet;
subject
on
which
bets
are
laid:
an
offer
to
make
oath
of
innocence
or
non-
indebtedness;
or
the
act
of
making
oath
along
with
others
to
fortify
the
defendant's
oath.
-
An
unsettled
question
whose
opposite
alternatives
are
supported
by
two
parties,
who
lay
down
stakes
to
abide
the
issue
of
the
event;
a
subject
on
which
bets
are
laid;
a
bet;
trial
by
battle.
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