Gainage

Wainage, or the draught oxen, horses, wain, plough, and furniture for carrying on the work of tillage. Also, the land tilled itself, or the profit arising from it. Old Nat. Brev. fol. 117. Gainor, the sokeman that hath such land in occupation. Old Nat. Brev. fol. 12.

Wainage, or the draughtoxen, horses, wain, plough, and furniture for carrying on the work of tillage. Also, the land tilled itself, or the profit arising from It Old N. B. fol. 117.

In old English law. Implements of husbandry or plough tackle, including wains or wagons and their furniture for carrying on the work of tillage; the profit arising from the tillage of land.

The gain or profit of tilled or planted land, raised by cultivating it; and the dranght, plow, and furniture for carrying on the work of tillage by the baser kind of sokemen or villeins. Pract. 1. i.c. 9.

Fr. & Eng. [L. Lat. gainagium, wainagium; L. Fr. gaignage, from Fr. gainer, to cultivate; or Sax. waen, a wain or wagon.] In old English law. Implements of husbandry or plough tackle, including wains or wagons and their furniture for carrying on the work of tillage. Cowell. Blount. Et villein savant son gainage; and the villein, saving his wainage. Stat. Westm. 1, c. 6. The profit arising from the tillage of land. Cowell. Termes de la ley. See Wainage.

old Eng. law, signifies the draft oxen, horses, wain, plough, and furniture for carrying on the work of tillage by the baser sort of soke men and villains, and sometimes the land itself, or the profits raised by cultivating it. Bract. lib. 1, c.