wainage

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Gainage; the team and implements necessary for the cultivation of land. UK,countable,obsolete,uncountable
    — 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.
  2. The provision of carriages, carts, etc., for the transportation of goods or produce. countable,uncountable
    — Such an extraordinary wainage could only have been accomplished by the mode of forced requisitions, and by devoting 5000 extra horses to the service; for the conveyance to Lyons was required of 14,000 bombs, 34,000 balls, 300,000 pounds of powder, 800,000 cartridges, and 130 pieces of ordnance.

词形变化

wainages plural

词源

From wain + -age. Compare Old French waaignage.
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