Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for GAIN'AGE
GAIN'AGE, n.
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. – Encyc.
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