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Webster 1913 Edition


Gainage

Gain′age

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Noun.
[OF.
gaignage
pasturage, crop, F.
gaignage
pasturage. See
Gain
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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.