bavin

American  

[bav-in] / ˈbæv ɪn /

noun

British Dialect and Newfoundland.

1. a piece of kindling wood.

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Etymology

Origin of bavin

First recorded in 1520–30; origin obscure

Example Sentences

It's better to be livin poor,    Than running into debt, An bavin duns coom to yor door;—    Yo'll find it's better net.

From Yorkshire Lyrics Poems written in the Dialect as Spoken in the West Riding of Yorkshire. To which are added a Selection of Fugitive Verses not in the Dialect by Hartley, John

The rest of the rough spray and small branching stuff is made up into faggots to be chopped up for fire-lighting; the country folk still use the old word "bavin" for faggots.

From Wood and Garden Notes and thoughts, practical and critical, of a working amateur by Jekyll, Gertrude

It is often spelled baven, but Shakspeare has "Rash bavin wits, Soon kindled and soon burned."

From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Belcher, Edward, Sir