Word Meanings - GAINAGE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The horses, oxen, plows, wains or wagons and implements for carrying on tillage. The profit made by tillage; also, the land itself. Bouvier.

Related words: (words related to GAINAGE)

• PROFIT
  1. Acquisition beyond expenditure; excess of value received for producing, keeping, or selling, over cost; hence, pecuniary gain in any transaction or occupation; emolument; as, a profit on the sale of goods. Let no man anticipate uncertain
• PROFITABLE
  Yielding or bringing profit or gain; gainful; lucrative; useful; helpful; advantageous; beneficial; as, a profitable trade; profitable business; a profitable study or profession. What was so profitable to the empire became fatal to the emperor.
• WAINSCOTING
  1. The act or occupation of covering or lining with boards in panel. 2. The material used to wainscot a house, or the wainscot as a whole; panelwork.
• HORSESHOE
  The Limulus of horsehoe crab. Horsehoe head , an old name for the condition of the skull in children, in which the sutures are too open, the coronal suture presenting the form of a horsehoe. Dunglison. -- Horsehoe magnet, an artificial magnet in
• CARRYK
  A carack. Chaucer.
• PROFITING
  Gain; advantage; profit. That thy profiting may appear to all. 1 Tim. iv. 15.
• HORSESHOEING
  The act or employment of shoeing horses.
• HORSESHOER
  One who shoes horses.
• CARRYALL
  A light covered carriage, having four wheels and seats for four or more persons, usually drawn by one horse.
• PROFITLESS
  Without profit; unprofitable. Shak.
• TILLAGE
  1. The operation, practice, or art of tilling or preparing land for seed, and keeping the ground in a proper state for the growth of crops. 2. A place tilled or cultivated; cultivated land. Syn. -- Cultivation; culture; husbandry; farming;
• CARRYTALE
  A talebearer. Shak.
• CARRY
  1. To convey or transport in any manner from one place to another; to bear; -- often with away or off. When he dieth he small carry nothing away. Ps. xiix. 17. Devout men carried Stephen to his burial. Acts viii, 2. Another carried the intelligence
• ITSELF
  The neuter reciprocal pronoun of It; as, the thing is good in itself; it stands by itself. Borrowing of foreigners, in itself, makes not the kingdom rich or poor. Locke.
• PLOWSHARE; PLOUGHSHARE
  The share of a plow, or that part which cuts the slice of earth or sod at the bottom of the furrow. Plowshare bone , the pygostyle.
• CARRYING
  The act or business of transporting from one place to another. Carrying place, a carry; a portage. -- Carrying trade, the business of transporting goods, etc., from one place or country to another by water or land; freighting. We are rivals with
• WAINSCOT
  A wooden lining or boarding of the walls of apartments, usually made in panels. (more info) fr. OD. waeg, weeg, a wall + schot 1. Oaken timber or boarding. A wedge wainscot is fittest and most proper for cleaving of an oaken tree. Urquhart.
• UNPROFIT
  Want of profit; unprofitableness. Wyclif.
• STILLAGE
  A low stool to keep the goods from touching the floor. Knight.
• SCARRY
  Bearing scars or marks of wounds.
• MISCARRY
  1. To carry, or go, wrong; to fail of reaching a destination, or fail of the intended effect; to be unsuccessful; to suffer defeat. My ships have all miscarried. Shak. The cardinal's letters to the pope miscarried. Shak. 2. To bring forth young
• OVERCARRY
  To carry too far; to carry beyond the proper point. Hayward.
• SWAINSHIP
  The condition of a swain.
• UNPROFITED
  Profitless. Shak.
• DISPROFIT
  Loss; damage. Foxe.