Meaning of mawn | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A maund; a basket or hamper.
   Scotland, dialectal
2. Peat.
3. A ghost.

Examples

“An apple-mill and press⟳ had been erected on the spot, to which some men were bringing fruit from divers points in mawn-baskets, while others were grinding them, and others wringing down the pomace, whose sweet juice gushed forth into tubs and pails.”

“None of the natives who had come⟳ in the boat would touch⟳ the body, or even go near it, saying, the mawn would come⟳; that is literally, ‘the spirit of the deceased would seize them’.”

“[…] there lived, high up the breast of one of the loftiest mountains, in a hut among the black mawn-pits, - the world of human haunts in soundless depth below, above her only the cloud, the crag, the kite, - a melancholy woman[…]”

“[…] mawn pits on a distant part of the Common. It is a bad mawn harvest⟳ this year in consequence of the wet⟳ summer and what with the dear coal and bread and meat and the diseased potatoes, I don't know⟳ what the poor people will do.”

“[…] the wastes made impassable by crevasses; the mawn-pits that could swallow⟳ a man and his mount⟳ before either was aware of them.”

“There are some extensive mawn pits near this village, from whence the inhabitants procure their chief fuel: it is cut⟳ up and harvested in the summer, and with a little wood makes a very good fire.”

“[…] throughout the mawn pools and larger bogs of Radnorshire but the largest numbers in Wales are found in the old county of […]”

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