单词 | bawn |
释义 | bawnn. 1. A fortified enclosure, enceinte, or circumvallation; the fortified court or outwork of a castle. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > defence > defensive work(s) > fort or fortified town > [noun] > main enclosure of fort bawn1537 body1579 enceinte1708 1537 in State Papers Henry VIII (1834) II. 441 Our Englishe men as~sauted the diges and baon of the castell. 1587 J. Hooker Chron. Ireland 167/1 in Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) II This castell..and the bannes about it. 1596 E. Spenser View State Ireland 502 b These..square bawns which you see so strongly trenched and thrown up. 1736 T. Carte Hist. Life Duke Ormonde II. 6 Defects in the walls of the outward Bawne..rendered it assaultable. 1827 H. Hallam Constit. Hist. Eng. III. 506 in Notes & Queries (1850) 1st Ser. I. 440/1 Those who received 2000 acres were bound..to build a castle and bawn or strong court yard: the second class..to build a stone house with a bawn; the third class a bawn only. 2. A cattlefold. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping of cattle > [noun] > housing or sheltering of cattle > cattle pen or shelter wormstall1601 cow-pen1635 bull-pen1809 cattle-pen1837 bawn1850 1850 Notes & Queries 1st Ser. 2 60/2 The word bawn or bane..is still applied in the south of Ireland to the..place for milking the cows of a farm..Before the practice of housing cattle became general, every country gentleman's house had its bawn. 1882 Whitehall Rev. No. 21. 6/1 A large castle..with a bawn attached to preserve their cattle at night. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1537 |
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