Definition of "lage"

lage

noun
uncountable
1. (obsolete, UK, thieves' cant) Water; any weak alcoholic beverage.
  Quotations
  I bowse no lage, but a whole gage / Of this I'll bowse to you.
  1641–42, Richard Brome, A Jovial Crew, or the Merry Beggars, act 2
verb
third-person singular simple present lages, present participle laging, simple past and past participle laged
1. (obsolete, UK, thieves' cant) To drink.
  Quotations
  I saye by the Salomon I will lage it of with a gage of Benebouse; then cut to my nose watch.
  1566, Thomas Harman, A Caveat or Warning for Common Cursitors