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gainage

gainage noun: the horses, oxen, ploughs, wains or wagons and implements for carrying on tillage.

Noun

gainage (uncountable)

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

Origin of gainage

From Old French gaignage (“pasturage, crop”), French gaignage (“pasturage”). See gain (verb).

Questions about gainage

What does gainage mean?
Gainage means the horses, oxen, ploughs, wains or wagons and implements for carrying on tillage.
What part of speech is gainage?
Gainage is a noun.

Words near gainage in the dictionary

  1. gain-of-function
  2. gain-of-function research
  3. gain-of-function researches
  4. gain-sharing
  5. gainable
  6. gainage
  7. gainand
  8. gainaxing
  9. gainbirth
  10. gainbite
  11. gaincoming

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