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Bavin

//ˈbæ.vɪn// adj, noun, verb

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Made of firewood or kindling. not-comparable

    "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,"

Noun
  1. 1
    A bundle of wood or twigs, which may be used in broom-making. Southern-England, archaic, countable

    "[…]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[…]"

  2. 2
    A bundle of wood or twigs, which may be used in broom-making.; A faggot bound with only one band. Southern-England, archaic, countable
  3. 3
    Impure limestone. UK, dialectal, uncountable

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

Verb
  1. 1
    To bundle and bind wood into bavins. Southern-England, archaic

Etymology

Etymology 1

Perhaps Old French baffe (“a faggot”).

Etymology 2

Perhaps Old French baffe (“a faggot”).

Etymology 3

Perhaps Old French baffe (“a faggot”).

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