[Dixonary] Round 3172: BAWN [Call for Votes]

Round 3172: BAWN [Call for Votes] Here are 13 potential definitions of BAWN. Some come from a dictionary, and one even from a dictionary article about the word bawn. Please vote for two, by the deadline, which is Monday 7 June at 10h00 CEST. That is roughly 48 hours from time of posting.

1. A squirrel’s nest.
2. A large abdominal paunch; a pot belly.
3. [OE] bath or spa (c.f. German Baden).
4. The fourth letter of the Piscatedic alphabet.
5. A dark brown pigment used in oil painting, extracted from the fecal matter of bears.
6. Scot. An immaterial debt which cannot be settled by the exchange of goods or property.
7. 1. A fortified enclosure, enceinte, or circumvallation; the fortified court or outwork of a castle. 2. A cattlefold.
8. The noise that can occur when a yawn and a swallow occur at the same time: caused by the release of air trapped between the epiglottis and the larynx.
9. Processed meat made from offcuts and less desirable parts, usually sold sliced; often beef but also lamb or pork.
10. A slender bristle, especially one at the tip of a glume or lemma in a grass spikelet.
11. A small, twisted bundle of hay used to aid a horse’s circulation.
12. Mud formed from the partial decay of peat.
13. A secret or clandestine marriage [Eng.] 

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Paul Keating
Soustons, Nouvelle Aquitaine, France





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