Gain″pain′ (?), n. [F. gagner to gain + pain bread.] Bread-gainer; — a term applied in the Middle Ages to the sword of a hired soldier.
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Webster's Dictionary 1913
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, C. & G. Merriam Co., 1913.