Hist. Also 6 waynage. [ad. Anglo-L. wainnagium: see GAINAGE.]
1. = GAINAGE 3 (q.v. with regard to erroneous interpretations).
c. 1500. trans. Gt. Charter, in Arnolde’s Chron. (1811), 217. A villayne other than ours the same wise shalbe amercyed, sauyng, his waynage yf he falle into our handis.
a. 1632. Coke, Inst., II. xiv. (1642), 28. It was great reason to save his wainage, for otherwise the miserable creature, was to carry it on his back.
1700. J. Tyrrell, Hist. Eng., II. 814. His Wainage (i.e. his Carts and Implements) to Till his Land.
2. Land under cultivation.
1875. Stubbs, Const. Hist., I. xii. 510. That they would … declare how many carucates, or what wainage for ploughs, there were in each township.
1898. W. Farrer, Cartul. Cockersand Abbey, II. I. 362. With acquittance of multure at the grantor’s mill of his house and wainage.
