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, 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, 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’.

• 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