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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
gayne .
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Examples
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Ai haz tew go naow, but haz gayned such a happy wif yur nooz!
HAI!!!! - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009
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B-tween deh Bountees ahnd deh Dovees,ai haz gayned 5 powdz just reading ICHC todayz!
happy can - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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I feedz mai kittehz dis, dey nont ovreet or nuffin… KB wuz teh skinnee when I fownd him – weighd 8 pounds WIF hiz tayl which got cuttid off….. den him kom hoam, gayned 2 powndz in a momf…. vet zed ZOMGZ taek fuud awae frum kiti, him obbureet, him nevar knoez to stop eetin….him git all bigfatpudgytank kitty, bees teh diabeetus.
David Cop-a-Feel - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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This hurrie and amazement being in the house, the Brides weeping, the Ladies lamenting, and all the servants confusedly wondering; Chynon and Lysimachus (with their Friends) having their weapons drawn in their hands, made all opposers to give them way, and so gayned the stair head for their owne descending.
The Decameron 2004
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Great paines he susteined about his businesse, and went himself to sell his coales, which he bare vpon his shoulders, to the next market townes, tyll he had gayned so mutche as bought him an asse, wherewith he dayly trauailed to vtter his coales, and other deuises which neede had forced him to learne.
The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 William Painter
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My sole objict in writing has been to CLEAR MY CARRATER -- to show that I came by my money in a honrable way: that I'm not ashaymd of the manner in which I gayned it, and ham indeed grateful for my good fortune.
Burlesques William Makepeace Thackeray 1837
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But when ye haue shewed all extremityes, then thinke how litle glory ye haue gayned: by slaying him, whose lyfe though ye despyse, mote haue your life in honour long maintayned.
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M234 Six hundred thousand pounde gayned yerely by Englishe wolles.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation. Vol. XIII. America. Part II. Richard Hakluyt 1584
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If the Lord give his blessing to your undertakeing, that the forts and places be gayned, you shall not use crueltye to the Inhabitants, but encourage those that are willing to remayne under the English goverment and give liberty to others to transport themselves for Europe.
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What haue you gayned by your new-found prac - tices?
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