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Webster 1913 Edition

Gainage

Gain′age

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,
Noun.
[OF.
gaignage
pasturage, crop, F.
gaignage
pasturage. See
Gain
,
Verb.
T.
]
(O. Eng. Law)
(a)
The horses, oxen, plows, wains or wagons and implements for carrying on tillage.
(b)
The profit made by tillage; also, the land itself.
Bouvier.

Webster 1828 Edition

Gainage

GA'INAGE

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Noun.
In old laws,the same as wainage, that is, guainage; the horses,oxen and furniture of the wain, or the instruments for carrying on tillage,which,when a villain was amerced, were left free, that cultivation might not be interrupted. The word signifies also the land itself, or the profit made by cultivation.

Definition 2024

gainage

gainage

English

Noun

gainage

  1. (Britain, law, obsolete) The horses, oxen, ploughs, wains or wagons and implements for carrying on tillage.
  2. The profit made by tillage; also, the land itself.
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Etymology

From Old French gaignage ‎(“pasturage, crop”), French gaignage ‎(“pasturage”). See gain ‎(verb).

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