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GAIN

Volume 10 · 66 words · 1842 Edition

the profit or lucre a person reaps from his trade, employment, or industry.

in Architecture, is the workmen's term for the bevelling shoulder of a joist or other timber.

To Gain the Wind, in nautical language, is to arrive on the weather side or to windward of some other vessel in sight, when both are plying to windward, or sailing as near the wind as possible.