The Collaborative International Dictionary
Gayne \Gayne\, v. i. [See Gain.] To avail. [Obs.]
Wiktionary
vb. (context obsolete English) To gain; to avail.
Usage examples of "gayne".
There was a poore Gardener amongst the rest, which bought me for the summe of fifty pence, which seemed to him a great price, but he thought to gayne it againe by the continuall travell of my body.
Ho bede hit hym ful bysily, and he hir bode wernes, And swere swyfte by his sothe that he hit sese nolde, And ho sore that he forsoke, and sayde therafter, "If 3e renay my rynk, to ryche for hit seme3, Yghe wolde not so hy3ly halden be to me, I schal gif yow my girdel, that gaynes yow lasse.
Yves Gaynes pointed out old towns and villages, the walls of their buildings now nothing more than stiff lumps drowned under tapegrass, names decaying to waypoints loaded into the Trooperbus’s guidance block.
She will goe into England with me, and were it but the gayning of this one soule, I will think my time, toile, and present stay well spent.