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daina [? cf. ME dai wine] , (amount of grain etc. allowed for) day’s work. b ‘day-work’ (measure of land). Cf. daiwerca, handaina. 1189 qualibet die faciet unam ~am (Inq. Glast.) Villainage in Eng. 288 (cf. ib. 295n); 1234 dicit villata quod, quando falcant prato [sic] domini, debent habere j ~am de frumento, que continet j bussellum et dim Cust. Glast. 13 (cf. ib. 37: inter festum S. Mich. et festum S. Martini debet triturare tres daynas, que si fuerint de frumento continent vj bus., si ‥ de fabis vel de ordeo, ij crannocos, si de avena xviij); c1280 quilibet predictorum debet iiij deywynes per unum hominem Cust. Battle 74; debet facere qualibet die Veneris ‥ j †dayuam manualem Cust. Bleadon 202; Adam ‥ debet operari qualibet septimana per annum †dayuam manualem et faciet pro †dayua quicquid precipietur a serviente preter falcare Ib. 208.  b Adam ‥ tenet mesuagium et ortum et j pecetam terre continentem j †dayuam terre Cust. Bleadon 208; c1260 dedi ‥ x dainias et dim. terre de libero tenemento meo Cart. Glam. 670; 1307 purpresturavit et assartavit j daynam de eodem feodo Cart. Glast. I 180; 1317 in j ~a terre Fabr. Exon. 88; 13‥ J. Faber [tenet] j ~am [of land of the highway in Newport, Som] DCWells MSS I 328.

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