wainage

Noun

wainage (countable and uncountable, plural wainages)

1. (UK, obsolete) Gainage; the team and implements necessary for the cultivation of land.
   • Bracton says in one place that the villein has an action against his lord if the lord should take away the villein's wainage, i.e. plough and plough-team.1900, William James Ashley, Surveys, Historic and Economic, page 46
2. The provision of carriages, carts, etc., for the transportation of goods or produce.
   • Such an extraordinary wainage could only have been accomplished by the mode of forced requisitions, and by devoting 5000 extra horses to the service; for the conveyance to Lyons was required of 14,000 bombs, 34,000 balls, 300,000 pounds of powder, 800,000 cartridges, and 130 pieces of ordnance.1845, Adolphe Thiers, translated by Thomas W. Redhead, The HIstory of the French Revolution, page 342
   • Provendering and wainage without consent of owner shall be allowed only on due payment in money.1887, Rudolph Gneist, Augustus Henry Keane, The Student's History of the English Parliament, page 99