wainage
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Gainage; the team and implements necessary for the cultivation of land.
British usage; Countable; Obsolete; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "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."
- "Provendering and wainage without consent of owner shall be allowed only on due payment in money."
- "The royal purveyors, who provided for the wants of the peripatetic court, claimed the right of " caption " or seizure , as well as those of “preemption” or compulsory purchase and of "wainage" or the right to horse and wagon for the king's service."
- "There were also services such as wainage, which may have been very onerous, but were not obligations of a servile character."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
Usage
- British usage
- Countable
- Obsolete
- Uncountable