Obs. Forms: 4 waynepayne, weine pain, 4–5 waynpain, payn, 5 -pane, wanpayn, -pan. [a. OF. wagnepan, north-eastern form of gaignepain: see GAINPAIN.]

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  1.  A sort of gauntlet; = GAINPAIN 1.

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c. 1300.  Wills & Invent. N. C. (Surtees), I. 16. ij galeæ xiijs. iijd. j par de Waynpayns & ij brasers vjs. viijd.

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  2.  A servant or scullion.

4

  Freq. in the Durham Acc. Rolls, both as an appellative and as a proper name.

5

13[?].  Sir Beues (A.), 926. I will þe douȝter ȝeue To a weine pain.

6

1364.  Durham Acc. Rolls (Surtees), 44. Le Waynpain, 2d. Ibid. (1438–9), 71. Cuidam famulo coquine vocato Waynpayn.

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