bavin — English Dictionary

Noun

1. A bundle of wood or twigs, which may be used in broom-making.

   Usage

   • Southern-England
   • Archaic
   • collective
   • Countable

   Examples

   […]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.

   Usage

   • Southern-England
   • Archaic
   • collective
   • Countable

3. Impure limestone.

   Usage

   • UK usage
   • dialectal
   • Uncountable

   Examples

   The concretions […] are called 'bavin,' the shale associated with them being termed 'rotch.'

Verb

1. To bundle and bind wood into bavins.

   Usage

   • Southern-England
   • Archaic

Adjective

1. Made of firewood or kindling.

   Usage

   • not-comparable

   Examples

   More examples (1)

   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,