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Meaning of GAINAGE

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Gain"age\ (?, 48), n. [OF. gaignage pasturage, crop, F.
gaignage pasturage. See {Gain}, v. 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.
 

 

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