Obs. Forms: 4 waynepayne, weine pain, 45 waynpain, payn, 5 -pane, wanpayn, -pan. [a. OF. wagnepan, north-eastern form of gaignepain: see GAINPAIN.]
1. A sort of gauntlet; = GAINPAIN 1.
c. 1300. Wills & Invent. N. C. (Surtees), I. 16. ij galeæ xiijs. iijd. j par de Waynpayns & ij brasers vjs. viijd.
2. A servant or scullion.
Freq. in the Durham Acc. Rolls, both as an appellative and as a proper name.
13[?]. Sir Beues (A.), 926. I will þe douȝter ȝeue To a weine pain.
1364. Durham Acc. Rolls (Surtees), 44. Le Waynpain, 2d. Ibid. (14389), 71. Cuidam famulo coquine vocato Waynpayn.