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bullaun

/ˈbʊlɔːn/

bullaun noun: a natural depression in a stone, often filled with water and sometimes pebbles.

bullaun: a natural depression in a stone, often filled with water and sometimes pebbles
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Noun

bullaun (plural bullauns)

  1. A natural depression in a stone, often filled with water and sometimes pebbles.
    • And Castledawson we'll enlist
      And Upperlands, each planted bawn-
      Like bleaching-greens resumed by grass-1972, Seamus Heaney, "A New Song", Wintering Out, Faber and Faber (1972)
    • For when he shuffles
      across the esker
      I glimpse my grandfather’s whiskers
      stained with tobacco-pollen.
      When he piddles against a bullaun
      I know he carries bovine TB1987, Paul Muldoon, "Brock", Meeting The British, Faber and Faber (1987)

Forms of bullaun

pluralbullauns

Origin of bullaun

From Irish bullán.

Questions about bullaun

What does bullaun mean?
Bullaun means a natural depression in a stone, often filled with water and sometimes pebbles.
What part of speech is bullaun?
Bullaun is a noun.
How do you pronounce bullaun?
Bullaun is pronounced /ˈbʊlɔːn/.
What is the plural of bullaun?
The plural of bullaun is bullauns.

Words near bullaun in the dictionary

  1. bullated
  2. bullately
  3. bullatine
  4. bullatines
  5. bullation
  6. bullaun
  7. bullauns
  8. Bullawa Creek
  9. bullbaiting
  10. bullbaitings
  11. bullbar

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