mawn
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: môn, IPA(key): /mɔːn/
- Rhymes: -ɔːn
Noun
mawn (plural mawns)
- (Scotland, dialectal) A maund; a basket or hamper.
- 1887, Thomas Hardy, The Woodlanders, Harper & Brothers:
- An apple-mill and press had been erected on the spot, to which some men were bringing fruit from divers points in mawn-baskets, while others were grinding them, and others wringing down the pomace, whose sweet juice gushed forth into tubs and pails.
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- A ghost.
Welsh
Derived terms
- mawnbwll (“peat-pit”)
- mawndir (“peaty land”)
- mawnog (“peat-bog”)
Yola
References
- J. Poole W. Barnes, A Glossary, with Some Pieces of Verse, of the Old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy (1867)
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