Wainage
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Wainage is a noun meaning (UK, law, obsolete) Gainage; the team and implements necessary for the cultivation of land.
Meaning
(UK, law, obsolete) Gainage; the team and implements necessary for the cultivation of land.
More Meanings
- The provision of carriages, carts, etc., for the transportation of goods or produce.
Example Sentences
Provendering and wainage without consent of owner shall be allowed only on due payment in money.
There were also services such as wainage, which may have been very onerous, but were not obligations of a servile character.
Bracton says in one place that the villein has an action against his lord if the lord should take away the villein's wainage, i.e. plough and plough-team.
The royal purveyors, who provided for the wants of the peripatetic court, claimed the right of " caption " or seizure , as well as those of “preemption” or compulsory purchase and of "wainage" or the right to horse and wagon for the king's service.
Word Forms
- wainages
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include lavation, lage, waggonry, lavature, manurance, rigation.
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