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rauny

rauny is the alternative form of rownee.

Meaning of rownee

Noun

rownee (plural rownees)

  1. (British, India, obsolete) A faussebraye; a subsidiary enceinte surrounding a fortified place on the outside of the proper wall and on the edge of the ditch.

Forms of rauny

pluralraunies

Questions about rauny

What is rauny the alternative form of?
Rauny is the alternative form of rownee.

Words near rauny in the dictionary

  1. raunge
  2. raunged
  3. raunges
  4. raunging
  5. raunies
  6. rauny
  7. Raup
  8. Raupian
  9. raupo
  10. raupos
  11. Raupp

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Adapted from Wiktionary: rauny (page history and authors); rownee (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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