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wainum

wainum [ME wain < AS wægn], cart, wagon, wain. b (as measurement of quantity) cart-load. 1264 reddit compotum de uno affro et tribus jumentis et de uno affro de wayno MinAc 1078/8 r. 5; spoliaverunt totam villam ‥ cariando cum bigis et waynis ad naves suas Chr. Hen. VI & Ed. IV 153.  b 1275 mensura bladi a tempore Walteri archiepiscopi excedit mensuram domini regis in quarterio per unum waynon' Hund. I 105a; emunt per magnam mensuram que major est debita mensura per unum waignim [? l. waignum] et vendunt per aliam Ib. I 115b.

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