gage

Black faces, white tablecloth, gleaming very sharp knives lined up by the saucers... tobacco and "gage" smoke richly blended, eye-reddening and tart as wine, yowzah gwine smoke a little ob dis hyah sheeit gib de wrinkles in mah brain a proccess!

Troll us a stave, my antediluvian file, and in the mean time tip me a gage of fogus, Jerry

GAGE, a small quantity of anything; as “a gage of tobacco,” meaning a. pipeful; “a gage of gin,” a glassful.

I bowse no lage, but a whole gage / Of this I'll bowse to you.