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  1. bavinnoun

    A bundle of wood, or twigs which may be used in broom making. Southern England term. Also, a fagot bound with only one band.

  2. bavinnoun

    impure limestone

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Bavinnoun

    A stick like those bound up in faggots; a piece of waste wood.

    Etymology: of uncertain derivation.

    He ambled up and down
    With shallow jesters and rash bavin wits,
    Soon kindled, and soon burnt. William Shakespeare, Henry IV.

    For moulded to the life in clouts,
    Th’ have pick’d from dunghills thereabouts,
    He’s mounted on a hazel bavin,
    A crop’d malignant baker gave him. Hudibras, p. iii. c. iii.

    The smaller truncheons make billet, bavin, and coals. John Mortimer, Art of Husbandry.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Bavinnoun

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

  2. Bavinnoun

    impure limestone

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Bavin

    bav′in, n. a fagot of brushwood.—Bavin wits (Shak.), wits that blaze and die like bavins. [O. Fr. baffe, a fagot; but this is doubtful.]

Dictionary of Nautical Terms

  1. bavin

    Brushwood bound up with only one withe: a faggot is tied with two. It is often spelled baven, but Shakspeare has "Rash bavin wits, Soon kindled and soon burned." This underwood is sometimes procurable by ships where none other can be got. Bavin in war applies to fascines.

Military Dictionary and Gazetteer

  1. bavin

    The old word for fascine.

Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. BAVIN

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Bavin is ranked #138304 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Bavin surname appeared 121 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Bavin.

    95% or 115 total occurrences were White.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of Bavin in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of Bavin in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3


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