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Gainage

Gainage \Gain"age\ (?, 48), n. [OF. gaignage pasturage, crop, F. gaignage pasturage. See Gain, v. t.] (O. Eng. Law)

  1. The horses, oxen, plows, wains or wagons and implements for carrying on tillage.

  2. The profit made by tillage; also, the land itself.
    --Bouvier.

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gainage

n. 1 (context UK legal obsolete English) The horses, oxen, ploughs, wains or wagons and implements for carrying on tillage. 2 The profit made by tillage; also, the land itself.