† waynpain Obs.
Forms: 4 waynepayne, weine pain, 4–5 waynpain, -payn, 5 -pane, wanpayn, -pan.
[a. OF. wagnepan, north-eastern form of gaignepain: see gainpain.]
1. A sort of gauntlet; = gainpain 1.
| c 1300 Wills & Invent. N.C. (Surtees) I. 16, ij galeæ xiijs. iij{supd}. j par de Waynpayns & ij brasers vjs. viij{supd}. |
2. A servant or scullion.
Freq. in the Durham Acc. Rolls, both as an appellative and as a proper name.
| 13.. Sir Beues (A.) 926, I will þe douȝter ȝeue To a weine pain. 1364 Durham Acc. Rolls (Surtees) 44 Le Waynpain, 2d. 1438–9 Ibid. 71 Cuidam famulo coquine vocato Waynpayn. |