rare. [f. TRAIN v.1 + -AGE: cf. F. trainage.] The action of ‘training’ or drawing along; haulage; conveyance by train.

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1611.  Cotgr., Trainage, trainage.

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1817.  Mann. & Cust., in Ann. Reg., 479/1. Fortunately (being the necessary conditions for good trainage) it [snow] had fallen on a ground already hardened by the frost.

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1890.  ‘R. Boldrewood,’ Col. Reformer (1891), 42. Men in charge of droves … pursued the old and rugged road, not caring to use the swifter, costlier trainage.

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