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Webster 1913 Edition

(băv′ĭn)

Noun.

[Cf. Gael. & Ir.

baban

tuft, tassel.]

A fagot of brushwood, or other light combustible matter, for kindling fires; refuse of brushwood.

[Obs. or Dial. Eng.]

Impure limestone.

[Prov. Eng.]

Wright.

Noun.

A stick like those bound up in faggots; a piece of waste wood. In war, brush, faggots.

bavin ‎(plural bavins)

A bundle of wood, or twigs which may be used in broom making. Southern England term. Also, a fagot bound with only one band.
(Britain, dialect) impure limestone
- 1839: The Silurian System by Roderick Murchison, i. xxxvi. 484
  "The concretions…are called ˈbavin,ˈ the shale associated with them being termed ˈrotch.ˈ"

bavin m ‎(uncountable)