bawn
/bɔːn
/noun
1Irish historical A fortified enclosure around a castle.The castle stood within a bawn (a fortified courtyard) with corner towers at each corner and inside was a formal garden laid-out....
- Pelham used artillery brought by sea and within two days had battered down the bawn and the western landward side of the castle.
- This 17th-century Vintners Company fortified house and bawn, was opened to the public in 1996.
2Irish & Canadian A meadow: [as modifier]: a field of bawn hay...
- Natural bawn grass threaded with royal blue brings out the beautiful texture of this basket from Bangladesh.
3Canadian A flat expanse of rocks on a beach, on which fish are spread to dry: fishermen spread the fish on the bawn...
- To spread fish on the bawn to make wages we went there without much sleep.
Origin
From Irish.
- tipcat
- tipi
- tipicity
- tip-in
- tip-off
- tip one's hand
- tip one's hat (or cap)
- tip (or drop or turn) the bucket on
- tip (or turn) the scales
- tip (or turn) the scales at
- tip (or turn) the scales (or balance)
- Tippecanoe River
- tipper
- Tipperary
- tipper truck
- tippet
- Tippett, Sir Michael
- Tippex
- Tipp-Ex
- tipping point
- tipple
- tippler
- tippy
- tippy-toe
- tipsily