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Gainage :: Gainage (v. t.) The horses, oxen, plows, wains or wagons and implements for carrying on tillage..

Tway :: Tway (a. & n.) Two; twain.

Wainwright :: Wainwright (n.) Same as Wagonwright.

Wagon :: Wagon (n.) The Dipper, or Charles's Wain..

Wainscoted :: Wainscoted (imp. & p. p.) of Wainsco.

Wainscoting :: Wainscoting (n.) The material used to wainscot a house, or the wainscot as a whole; panelwork..

Wainage :: Wainage (n.) A finding of carriages, carts, etc., for the transportation of goods, produce, etc..

Untwain :: Untwain (v. t.) To rend in twain; to tear in two.

Wain :: Wain (n.) A four-wheeled vehicle for the transportation of goods, produce, etc.; a wagon..

Boatswain :: Boatswain (n.) The jager gull.

Boatswain :: Boatswain (n.) An officer who has charge of the boats, sails, rigging, colors, anchors, cables, cordage, etc., of a ship, and who also summons the crew, and performs other duties..

Twain :: Twain (a. & n.) Two; -- nearly obsolete in common discourse, but used in poetry and burlesque..

Call :: Call (n.) A whistle or pipe, used by the boatswain and his mate, to summon the sailors to duty..

Wainscot :: Wainscot (n.) A wooden lining or boarding of the walls of apartments, usually made in panels..

Panelwork :: Panelwork (n.) Wainscoting.

Wainage :: Wainage (n.) See Gainage, a..

Winding :: Winding (n.) A call by the boatswain's whistle.

Swainship :: Swainmote (n.) A court held before the verders of the forest as judges, by the steward of the court, thrice every year, the swains, or freeholders, within the forest composing the jury..

Jager :: "Jager (n.) Any species of gull of the genus Stercorarius. Three species occur on the Atlantic coast. The jagers pursue other species of gulls and force them to disgorge their prey. The two middle tail feathers are usually decidedly longer than the rest. Called also boatswain, and marline-spike bird. The name is also applied to the skua, or Arctic gull (Megalestris skua)..

Whistle :: Whistle (v. i.) An instrument in which gas or steam forced into a cavity, or against a thin edge, produces a sound more or less like that made by one who whistles through the compressed lips; as, a child's whistle; a boatswain's whistle; a steam whistle (see Steam whistle, under Steam)..

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