bavin

plural bavins

1. Southern EnglandarchaiccollectivecountableA bundle of wood or twigs, which may be used in broom-making.

   […]that hot love is soon cold: that the bavin, though it burn bright, is but a blaze: that scalding water, it if stand awhile, turneth almost to ice[…]

   1578, John Lyly, Euphues

   1. Southern EnglandarchaiccollectivecountableA faggot bound with only one band.
2. UKdialectaluncountableImpure limestone.

   The concretions […] are called 'bavin,' the shale associated with them being termed 'rotch.'

   1839, Roderick Murchison, The Silurian System, i. xxxvi. 484

present singular third person bavins · participle present bavining · participle past bavined · past bavined

1. Southern EnglandarchaicTo bundle and bind wood into bavins.

1. not comparableMade of firewood or kindling.

   The skipping King, he ambled up and down, / With shallow jesters, and rash bavin wits, / Soon kindled and soon burnt, carded his state, / Mingled his royalty with capering fools,

   a. 1597, William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 1, act 3, scene 2, lines 60–63