bavin

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A bundle of wood or twigs, which may be used in broom-making. Southern-England,archaic,countable
    — […]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[…]
  2. A bundle of wood or twigs, which may be used in broom-making.; A faggot bound with only one band. Southern-England,archaic,countable
  3. Impure limestone. UK,dialectal,uncountable
    — The concretions […] are called 'bavin,' the shale associated with them being termed 'rotch.'
动词 v.
  1. To bundle and bind wood into bavins. Southern-England,archaic
形容词 adj.
  1. Made of firewood or kindling. not-comparable
    — The skipping King, he ambled up and down, / With shallow jesters, and rash bavin wits, / Soon kindled and soon burnt, carded his state, / Mingled his royalty with capering fools,

词形变化

bavins plural bavins present,singular,third-person bavining participle,present bavined participle,past bavined past

词源

词源 1
Perhaps Old French baffe (“a faggot”).
词源 2
Perhaps Old French baffe (“a faggot”).
词源 3
Perhaps Old French baffe (“a faggot”).
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