mawn

• enPR: môn, IPA^(key): /mɔːn/
• Rhymes: -ɔːn

mawn (plural mawns)

1. (Scotland, dialect) A maund; a basket or hamper.
   • 1887, Thomas Hardy, The Woodlanders‎^[1], Harper & Brothers, page 173:

     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.

2. A ghost.
   • 2006, Watkin Tench, A Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson‎^[2], University of Adelaide, archived from the original on 10 October 2010, page 7:

     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’.

Welsh mawn

mawn

1. Peat.
   • 1837, The Tale Book: 1st Series, page 59:

     […] 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 […]

   • 2013 April 18 [1870-79], William Plomer, Kilvert's Diary 1870-1879 - Selections from the Diary of the REV. Francis Kilvert, Read Books Ltd, →ISBN:

     […] 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.

   • 1932, Francis Brett Young, The House Under the Water: Volume 1, page 103:

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

   • 2005, Mark Willett, An Excursion from the Source of the Wye, page 56:

     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.

   • 2010, Roger Lovegrove, Iolo Williams, Graham Williams, Birds in Wales, page 83:

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

• IPA^(key): /mau̯n/
• Rhymes: -au̯n

From Proto-Brythonic *mọn, from Proto-Celtic *mānis (compare Irish móin), from Proto-Indo-European *meh₂- (“wet”).

mawn m (collective, singulative mawnen)

1. peat

• mawnbwll (“peat-pit”)
• mawndir (“peaty land”)
• mawnog (“peat-bog”)

mawn

1. Nasal mutation of bawn.

mawn

1. Alternative form of mawen

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 56