wainagen.
/ˈweɪnɪdʒ/ Historical.
1. = gainage n. 3 (see with regard to erroneous interpretations).
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c1503 tr. Magna Carta in R. Arnold Chron. f. lxxxijv/1 A villayne other than ours the same wise shalbe amercyed Sauyng his waynage yf he falle in to our handis.
a1634 E. Coke 2nd Pt. Inst. Lawes Eng. (1642) xiv. 28 It was great reason to save his wainage, for otherwise the miserable creature, was to carry it on his back.
1700 J. Tyrrell Gen. Hist. Eng. II. 814 His Wainage (i.e. his Carts and Implements) to Till his Land.
2. Land under cultivation.
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the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > land suitable for cultivation > [noun] > cultivated land
till-land1437
till-ridge1549
cultivation1757
wainage1810
khet1878
Dusun1914
1810 G. Chalmers Caledonia II. ii. 134 The waynage, or cultivable lands, and meadows of each district or manor, were possessed, and laboured, in separate portions, by the individuals of the manor.
1875 W. Stubbs Constit. Hist. (ed. 2) I. xii. 510 That they would..declare how many carucates, or what wainage for ploughs, there were in each township.
1898 W. Farrer Cartul. Cockersand Abbey II. i. 362 With acquittance of multure at the grantor's mill of his house and wainage.
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