Mawn

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 […]