bawn

American  

[bawn] / bɔn /

noun

Newfoundland.

1. a rocky stretch of foreshore on which caught fish are laid out to dry.

2. a patch of grassland or meadow near a dwelling.

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Etymology

Origin of bawn

First recorded in 1530–40; Hiberno-English, from Irish bábhún (earlier spelling badhbhdhún, badhún ) “enclosure,” perhaps equivalent to ba, plural of bó “cow” + dún “fort”; see cow ¹, town

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Example Sentences

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bawn

I was bawn a slave, but I ain't neber been one.

From Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves: Volume I, Alabama Narratives by United States. Work Projects Administration

I makes him wait on me, and he gits mighty raw sometimes, but I tells him I'm jes' much older den he is now as I was when he was bawn.

From Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves: Volume I, Alabama Narratives by United States. Work Projects Administration

Never again of Una bawn, Where now she walks in dreamy hall, Shall eyes of mortal look upon!

From A Book of Irish Verse Selected from modern writers with an introduction and notes by W. B. Yeats by W. B. (William Butler) Yeats

To maids in the bower I sang of love: And of war at the feastings in bawn or grove.

From A Book of Irish Verse Selected from modern writers with an introduction and notes by W. B. Yeats by W. B. (William Butler) Yeats

Twine the mazes thro’ and thro’ Over beach and margent pale; Not a bawn appears in view, Not a sail!

From The Mountainy Singer by Seosamh MacCathmhaoil

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