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† ˈgainpain Obs.
In ? 6 gaynepayne.
[a. OF. gaignepain (in 13th c. wagnepan) a sort of gauntlet. Commonly identified with the F. gagnepain, lit. ‘bread-winner’ (f. stem of gagner gain v.2 + pain bread), which is recorded from the 17th c. in the sense ‘tool by which one gains one's bread’, but is prob. of much older formation, as it appears c 1320 in Eng. as weine pain (Sir Beues 926: see waynpain), in the sense ‘man who has to earn his bread’. This derivation does not seem to suit the sense ‘gauntlet’, and perh. two distinct words have been confounded by popular etymology; the sense of ‘sword’ is hardly authenticated even in Fr.; if genuine, it may well have been a casual application of the surviving word.]
1. A sort of gauntlet.
c1430Pilgr. Lyf Manhode i. cxxii. (1869) 64 Swich continence thus doubled is cleped of summe men gayn payn, For bi it is wunne the bred bi the whiche is fulfilled the herte of mankynde and that was figured heer bifore in the bred that Dauid askede For Achimelech wolde nevere graunte it him ne take it him bifore that he wiste he was glooued and armed with gayn paynes. c1500Rom. Monk (Sion Coll. MS.) (Halliwell), Affter I tooke the gaynepaynes and the swerd with which I gurde me, and sithe whane I was thus armed, I putte the targe to my side.
¶2. Explained in accordance with the Fr. dicts., as ‘The ancient name of the sword used at tournaments’. But evidence of the Eng. use of the word in this sense is wanting.
1824Meyrick Antient Armour III. Gloss., Gayne-payne, an English name for a large sword without point, from the French gagne-pain. The appellation was transferred from the field of battle to the tilt-yard, having been the bread-earner of the soldier. 1847in Halliwell; and in mod. Dicts. |