单词 | bavin |
释义 | bavinn. 1. a. A bundle of brushwood or light underwood, such as is used in bakers' ovens, differing from a faggot in being bound with only one withe or band instead of two; (Military) a fascine. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > defence > defensive work(s) > shelter or screen > [noun] > gabions or fascines bavin1528 gabion1544 grand-maund1579 saucisse1604 sconce-korf1629 cannon-basket1630 sausage1645 chandelier1664 fascine1669 musket-basket1688 saucisson1702 fascinery1751 basket1753 society > occupation and work > materials > fuel > wood as fuel > [noun] > a pile, stack, or bundle faggotc1312 kida1350 faggald1488 bavin1528 woodpile1552 fire pile1577 brush-faggot1606 stalder1611 figate1645 kid-stack1653 stack-wood1664 brush1699 bavin-band1725 pimpa1731 bavin-stack1759 bundle-wood1879 wood-heap1943 1528 in T. Whitaker Hist. Craven (1812) 303 Item, for 40 load of cutwood & bavins. 1580 J. Lyly Euphues & his Eng. (new ed.) f. 56 Bauins are knowen by their bandes. 1603 H. Crosse Vertues Common-wealth sig. S1 Which like a bauin giueth a goodly blaze..but is soone out. 1629 tr. S. Pelegromius Descr. S'hertogenbosh 39 The Enemies did nothing else but fill the ditches with wet Bauins of trees. 1776 T. Bowden Farmer's Director 11 All hay ricks should be bottomed with faggots and bavins. 1836 E. Howard Rattlin, the Reefer I. xiii. 127 The bavins of furze..shall be sold. b. collective singular. Brushwood, firewood. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > fuel > wood as fuel > [noun] woodc888 trouse978 stickc1175 spray1297 spraya1300 firewood1377 lopc1420 billet1465 buchette1507 bag-wood1525 bavin1573 brushment1591 brushwood1616 burning-wood1642 firebote1661 chump1680 lop-wood1693 brush1699 burn-wood1701 lightwood1705 shravel1732 billet-wood1759 hedge-wood1785 pine knot1791 1573 T. Tusser Fiue Hundreth Points Good Husbandry (new ed.) f. 17 In stacking of bauen..Make vnder thy bauen, a houell for hoggs. 1664 J. Evelyn Sylva 48 [They] be profitable for the Oven, and make good Bavin. 2. Mineralogy. Impure limestone. (? a different word). ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > rock > sedimentary rock > [noun] > limestone > others lias1404 stone marrow1681 stone marl1682 saint's head stone1763 Kentish rag1769 watericle1776 kankar1793 Cotham1816 mountain limestone1817 tosca1818 cornstone1819 burr1829 coral-limestone1831 scar-limestone1831 Wenlock limestone1834 bavin1839 curf1839 Solenhofen slate1841 Beer stone1871 miliolite limestone1872 Clipsham1877 reef limestone1884 Hopton wood1888 thermo-calcite1888 Kilkenny marble1930 micrite1959 1839 R. I. Murchison Silurian Syst. i. xxxvi. 484 These concretions..are called ‘bavin,’ the shale associated with them being termed ‘rotch.’ Compounds C1. attributive, as in bavin-band, bavin-stack. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > fuel > wood as fuel > [noun] > a pile, stack, or bundle faggotc1312 kida1350 faggald1488 bavin1528 woodpile1552 fire pile1577 brush-faggot1606 stalder1611 figate1645 kid-stack1653 stack-wood1664 brush1699 bavin-band1725 pimpa1731 bavin-stack1759 bundle-wood1879 wood-heap1943 1725 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Œconomique Birch..is of use for Bavin bands. 1759 J. Mills tr. H. L. Duhamel du Monceau Pract. Treat. Husbandry i. viii. 21 The bottom of bavine-stacks. C2. bavin wits n. wits bavin-like in quick and short-lived blaze. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > understanding > intelligence, cleverness > wit, wittiness > [noun] > particular kinds of wit bavin wits1598 Attic salt1633 water-wit1658 Latin-wit1670 sheer wit1672 sea-wit1695 razor wit1786 1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 iii. ii. 61 Shallow iesters, and rash bauin wits, Soone kindled, and soone burnt. View more context for this quotation This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online September 2021). † bavinv. Obsolete. transitive. To bind up into bavins. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > fuel > wood as fuel > supply or load with fuel [verb (transitive)] wood1628 bavin1664 1664 J. Evelyn Sylva (1776) 538 Kid or Bavin them (the underwood)..to preserve them from rotting. 1685 C. Cotton tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. II. 516 They saw [him] ingeniously bavin up a burthen of brushwood. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < |
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