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gainage

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
gainage
IPA
9
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The horses, oxen, ploughs, wains or wagons and implements for carrying on tillage.

British usage; Obsolete; Uncountable

noun

The profit made by tillage; also, the land itself

Uncountable

Etymology

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

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Questions

What does gainage mean?
The horses, oxen, ploughs, wains or wagons and implements for carrying on tillage.
Where does gainage come from?
It is traced to Old French.

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