Middle English Dictionary Entry
gainaǧe n.
Entry Info
| Forms | gainaǧe n. Also gaignage. |
| Etymology | OF gäaignage |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
Profit derived from agriculture.
Associated quotations
- (a1393) Gower CA (Frf 3)3.2347 : As the trew man to the plowh Only to the gaignage entendeth.
- c1600(?c1395) PPl.Creed (Trin-C R.3.15)197 : I trowe þe gaynage of þe ground in a gret schire Nolde aparaile þat place.