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bavins

bavins is the plural of bavin.

Meaning of bavin

Noun

bavin (countable and uncountable, plural bavins)

  1. (Southern-England, archaic, collective, countable) A bundle of wood or twigs, which may be used in broom-making.
    • […]that hot love is soon cold: that the bavin, though it burn bright, is but a blaze: that scalding water, it if stand awhile, turneth almost to ice[…]1578, John Lyly, Euphues
    1. (Southern-England, archaic, collective, countable) A faggot bound with only one band.
  2. (UK, dialectal, uncountable) Impure limestone.
    • The concretions […] are called 'bavin,' the shale associated with them being termed 'rotch.'1839, Roderick Murchison, The Silurian System, i. xxxvi. 484

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Questions about bavins

What is bavins the plural of?
Bavins is the plural of bavin.

Words near bavins in the dictionary

  1. bavians
  2. bavin
  3. bavined
  4. Bavington
  5. bavining
  6. bavins
  7. bavistin
  8. bavituximab
  9. Bavli
  10. Baw Baw
  11. baw-waw

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