bawn

== English == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /bɔːn/ Rhymes: -ɔːn === Etymology 1 === From Irish bán, alternative form of bábhún (“walled enclosure”). ==== Noun ==== bawn (plural bawns) (Ireland) A cattle-fort; a building used to shelter cattle. 1729, Jonathan Swift, The Grand Question Debated, Thomas Sheridan (editor), John Nichols (editor, revised edition), 1812, The British Classics, Volume 45: The works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, D.D.: Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin, Volume XI, page 163: The Grand Question Debated Whether Hamilton's Bawn Should be Turned into a Barrack or a Malt-house − 1729 This Hamilton's bawn, while it sticks in my hand, / I lose by the house what I get by the land; / But how to dispose of it to the best bidder, / For a barrack or malthouse, we now must consider. 1892, Joseph Jacobs (editor), Jack and His Master, Celtic Fairy Tales: When he was coming into the bawn at dinner-time, what work did he find Jack at but pulling armfuls of the thatch off the roof, and peeping into the holes he was making? A defensive wall built around a tower house. It was once used to protect livestock during an attack. ===== Derived terms ===== Hamiltonsbawn === Etymology 2 === ==== Verb ==== bawn Pronunciation spelling of born. === Anagrams === WNBA == Welsh == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /bau̯n/ Rhymes: -au̯n === Verb === bawn first-person singular imperfect subjunctive of bod ==== Synonyms ==== byddwn === Mutation === == Yola == === Adjective === bawn alternative form of baun NOTES TO THE WEDDEEN O BALLYMORE (1) Garrane Bawn is Irish === References === Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 98