Weather gage be the boat without the weather gage, especially just before the start or when the boat to leeward can point higher into the wind. "Gauge" and "gage" are often used as alternative spellings. To the extent that there is a difference, a "weather gauge" can be a form of meteorological instrumentation for measuring weather quantitatively, such as a rain gauge, thermometer, anemometer, or barometer. A "gage" is a challenge, and hence an entry into battle, though the word is more commonly embedded in the word "engage". Weather gage The weather gage (sometimes spelled weather gauge) is the advantageous position of
Pe (letter) of words, the letter's written form changes to a "Pe/Fe Sophit" (Final Pe/Fe): . When a word in modern Hebrew borrowed from another language ends with , the non-final form is used (e.g. "Philip"), while borrowings ending in still use the Pe Sofit (e.g. "fun", from Arabic). This is because native Hebrew words, which always use the final form at the end, cannot end in . In gematria, Pe represents the number 80. Its final form represents 800 but this is rarely used, Tav written twice (400+400) being used instead. Pe (letter) Pe is the seventeenth letter of the Semitic