GA'INAGE, noun In old laws, the same as wainage, that is, guainage; the horses, oxen and furniture of the wain, or the instruments for carrying on tillage, which, when a villain was amerced, were left free, that cultivation might not be interrupted. The word signifies also the land itself, or the profit made by cultivation.
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Webster's Dictionary 1828
American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.