GAge.
We are to Gage our Cask, that we may see how great it is, or how much is leaked out; which we doe, by putting downe a stick at the Boong, and that, by the wetnesse, will shew how much liquour is in it: Also, when we would know how much water a ship drawes when she is a-floate, we stick a naile into a pike or pole, and so put it downe by the Rudder, till this naile catch hold under the Rudder, and this we call gageing a ship: Note that we cannot exactly by this, tell how much water she drawes, for we must allow for the Rake of the ship aft-ward on: for the Lole doth not go downe in a Perpendicular Line, and so many foote as she drawes, is called the ships gage, when one ship is to-weather of another, she hath, as they terme it, the weather-gage, but they never use to say, the Lee-gage.