Wager

1. v. t. That on which bets are laid; the subject of a bet.
2. v. t. Something deposited, laid, or hazarded on the event of a contest or an unsettled question; a bet; a stake; a pledge.
3. v. t. A contract by which two parties or more agree that a certain sum of money, or other thing, shall be paid or delivered to one of them, on the happening or not happening of an uncertain event.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.