bavin

[bav-in]

noun

British Dialect and Newfoundland.

1. a piece of kindling wood.

Word History and Origins

Origin of bavin¹

First recorded in 1520–30; origin obscure

Example Sentences

Michelle Bavin started running in November 2016, beginning slowly with a couch-to-5km programme.

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"He's very, very unstable," Derek Bavin told KSEE-TV News.

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Alliteration was also a particular ornament of the euphuistic style, as: “The bavin, though it burn bright, is but a blaze,” but the use of this artifice by Lyly himself was rarely exaggerated; for instances of its excess we have rather to turn to his imitators.

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Bavin once set afire Will not so soon expire; Let's never stay with such as they, Who gladly would, but cannot.

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It was hard luck on Chard, one felt, that he should have to come first: Bavin's oratorical bludgeonings would make a mess of Chard.

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