bavin

[ bav-in ]

nounBritish Dialect and Newfoundland.
  1. a piece of kindling wood.

Origin of bavin

1
First recorded in 1520–30; origin obscure

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How to use bavin in a sentence

  • They conjectured of old at Athens, an aptitude for the mathematics in him they saw ingeniously bavin up a burthen of brushwood.

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