Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Gainpain

Gainpain , noun

[French gagner to gain + pain bread.]

Bread-gainer; -- a term applied in the Middle Ages to the sword of a hired soldier.

Text from the public-domain GNU Collaborative International Dictionary of English, derived from Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913). Definitions marked with were added by later GCIDE contributors and are not in the original 1913 edition.

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