Gainage

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Gainage \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.


         [1913 Webster]

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  GAINAGE, old Eng. law. It signifies the draft oxen, horses, wain, plough, 
  and furniture for carrying on the work of tillage by the baser sort of @soke 
  men and villeins, and sometimes the land itself, or the profits raised by 
  cultivating it. Bract. lib. 1, c. 9.