mawn

English

Pronunciation

  • enPR: môn, IPA(key): /mɔːn/
  • Rhymes: -ɔːn

Noun

mawn (plural mawns)

  1. (Scotland, dialect) A maund; a basket or hamper.
    • 1887, Thomas Hardy, The Woodlanders‎, Harper & Brothers:
      An apple-mill and press had been erected on the spot, to which some men were bringing fruit from divers points in mawn-baskets, while others were grinding them, and others wringing down the pomace, whose sweet juice gushed forth into tubs and pails.
  2. A ghost.
    • 2006, Watkin Tench, A Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson‎, University of Adelaide:
      None of the natives who had come in the boat would touch the body, or even go near it, saying, the mawn would come; that is literally, ‘the spirit of the deceased would seize them’.

Welsh

Verb

mawn

  1. Nasal mutation of bawn.

Yola

Noun

mawn

  1. Alternative form of mawen

References

  • J. Poole W. Barnes, A Glossary, with Some Pieces of Verse, of the Old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy (1867)
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