Look up wager in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Wager can refer to: Wager, the amount of a valuable staked when gambling on an event with an uncertain...
Wager Mutiny took place in 1741, after the British warship HMS Wager was wrecked on a desolate island off the south coast of present-day Chile. Wager...
Wager Island (Spanish: Isla Wager) is an uninhabited island in Guayaneco Archipelago, a remote part of western Patagonia. Located 1,600 kilometres (990...
Gambling (also known as betting or gaming) is the wagering of something of value ("the stakes") on a random event with the intent of winning something...
Michael Wager (born Emanuel Weisgal, April 29, 1925 – December 26, 2011[citation needed]) was an American film and television actor. Wager was born in...
Taylor Wager FRS (11 March 1862 – 17 November 1929) was a British botanist and mycologist. He was the uncle of the geologist Lawrence Rickard Wager. He was...
Ann Wager (1716 – August 20, 1774) was a teacher and schoolmistress in colonial Williamsburg, Virginia. She married William Wager, but was widowed in...
Anthony A. Wager (24 June 1932 – 23 December 1990) was an English actor and television writer. He is best known for portraying the role of the young Pip...
Walter Herman Wager (September 4, 1924 – July 11, 2004) was an American crime and espionage-thriller novelist and former editor-in-chief of Playbill magazine...
A scientific wager is a wager whose outcome is settled by scientific method. It typically consists of an offer to pay a certain sum of money on the scientific...
William Wager (fl. 1566), writer of interludes, is known only by his works. 'A very mery and pythie Commedie, called, The longer thou livest, the more...
name HMS Wager. Another was planned but later cancelled: HMS Wager (1739) was a 24-gun sixth rate purchased in 1739 and wrecked in 1741. HMS Wager (1744)...
Archibald Wager was an 18th-century civil servant in colonial Virginia. Wager served as the Clerk of Court for three counties: Hampshire County (1755–1757)...
Lawrence Rickard Wager, commonly known as Bill Wager, (5 February 1904 – 20 November 1965) was a British geologist, explorer and mountaineer, described...
Tor D. Wager is the Diana L. Taylor Distinguished Professor in Neuroscience at Dartmouth College, as well as the director of the Cognitive and Affective...
down a legal wager at the preliminary hearing, probably to discourage frivolous litigation. In some cases, if the party lost, the wager went to the other...
Admiral Sir Charles Wager PC (24 February 1666 – 24 May 1743) was an English Royal Navy officer and politician who served as First Lord of the Admiralty...
Compurgation, also called trial by oath, wager of law, and oath-helping, was a defence used primarily in medieval law. A defendant could establish their...
Form 730, Tax on Wagering, is used to compute excise taxes for both legal and illegal wagers of certain types. For state authorized wagers placed with bookmakers...
Trial by combat (also wager of battle, trial by battle or judicial duel) was a method of Germanic law to settle accusations in the absence of witnesses...
Alexandra Wager (born c. 1950) is an American former child actress. Wager is the daughter of actor Michael Wager. She made her television debut in March...
became #1 on The New York Times bestseller list. Grann's latest book, The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder, was published in April 2023. It...
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