GA'INAGE,noun In old laws, the same as wainage, that is, guainage; the horses, oxen and furniture of the wain, or the instruments for carrying on tillage, which, when a villain was amerced, were left free, that cultivation might not be interrupted. The word signifies also the land itself, or the profit made by cultivation.
Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary ↗ · public-domain · returned verbatim, no AI