α. pre-1700 boin, pre-1700 boying, pre-1700 1800s boyn, pre-1700 1800s– boyne, 1800s boine, 1800s– bine, 1900s– boyen, 1900s– byne.
β. pre-1700 bowine, 1800s bowen, 1800s bowyne.
boynen.
/bɔɪn/, U.S. /bɔɪn/, Scottish English /bɔɪn/, /bʌin/ Scottish. Now rare.
A flat shallow tub or bowl, esp. (in later use) one for holding milk or one for washing clothes; (also occasionally) the amount held by such a container. Cf. bowie n.1
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the world > food and drink > drink > containers for drink > [noun] > milk-pot or -can
milk stop1440
milk-vesselc1450
milking pot1511
boyne1532
milk pot1535
milk pan1557
milk-bowl1567
milk can1568
milk-kettle1572
society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > vessel > tub > [noun]
mealeOE
standa1275
collockc1310
kimnel1335
tub1392
kit14..
kiver1407
cowpe1483
trendle1493
boyne1532
bowie1538
runge1574
standfat1593
turnel1688
the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > washing > washing clothes and textile articles > [noun] > vessel for washing clothes in
wash-bowla1529
buck1530
boyne1532
washing-tub1560
wash-tub1602
bucking-tub1615
buck-vat1620
washing-bowl1622
swill1624
possing tub1659
suds-tub1805
bucking-vat1822
bucking-keir1823
peggy tub1823
poss-tub1829
pounding barrel1853
posskit1855
wash-boiler1875
washpot1926
1532 in J. B. Paul Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1905) VI. 156 For boyingis and teichtein of the xij barrellis of aill forsaidis.
1590 in R. Chambers Domest. Ann. (1858) I. 201 (note) John Borthwick, baxter, to get four boins of beer, with four gang of ale, and to furnish bread.
1643 in J. Robertson & C. Innes Munimenta Univ. Glasguensis (1854) III. 535 Ane bowine for steiping of fyshe.
1656 in J. D. Marwick Extracts Rec. Burgh Glasgow (1881) II. 332 The salt boynes [margin tubis] to stand about Dowhills yett and downewards.
1682 Corshill Baron-Court Bk. in Archæol. & Hist. Coll. Ayr & Wigton (1884) IV. 160 The claim..[of] twenty shilling,..with ten shilling for ane boyn.
1821 J. Galt Ann. Parish iv. 46 Her seam..had fallen into a boyne of milk.
1821 J. Galt Ayrsh. Leg. 265 (Jam.) The lasses were..standing upright before the boyns on chairs, rubbin the clothes.
1825 J. Wilson Noctes Ambrosianae in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Oct. 506 Take a peck of purtatoes, and put them into a boyne.
1861 J. Barr Poems & Songs 154 Ye weel deserve to ride the stang, Or get a sousin' plump, Or stap ye in a washin' boyne, And on ye ca' the pump.
1894 P. H. Hunter James Inwick v. 62 There was Jess an' the kimmers a' stan'in wi' their boynes an' pails at the siver.
1955 G. Grigson Englishman's Flora 174 The milk in the boynes or tubs.
2002 Evening Times (Glasgow) (Nexis) 5 Jan. 10 Castle Boins was the name given to the wash-house where the boynes or tubs were kept.
2003 L. Williams & A. Loudon Mearns Matters (ed. 2) 18 (caption) A dairymaid..is pictured with her milk bine, butter search and spade.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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