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单词 bawn
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bawnn.

Brit. /bɔːn/, U.S. /bɔn/, /bɑn/, Irish English /bɒːn/
Forms: Also 1500s baon, banne, 1600s–1700s baune, 1800s bane.
Etymology: < Irish bábhun (O'Clery), of unknown derivation.
1. A fortified enclosure, enceinte, or circumvallation; the fortified court or outwork of a castle.
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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.
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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).
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