wainage
English
Etymology
wain + -age
Noun
wainage (countable and uncountable, plural wainages)
- (Britain, law, obsolete) Gainage; the team and implements necessary for the cultivation of land.
- A finding of carriages, carts, etc., for the transportation of goods or produce.
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for wainage in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)
Anagrams
- Gawaine