"bawn" meaning in English

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        "4": "walled enclosure"
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  "etymology_text": "From Irish bán, alternative form of bábhún (“walled enclosure”).",
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          "ref": "1729, Jonathan Swift, The Grand Question Debated, Thomas Sheridan (editor), John Nichols (editor, revised edition), 1812, The British Classics, Volume 45: The works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, D.D.: Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin, Volume XI, page 163",
          "text": "The Grand Question Debated\nWhether Hamilton's Bawn Should be Turned into a Barrack or a Malt-house − 1729\nThis Hamilton's bawn, while it sticks in my hand, / I lose by the house what I get by the land; / But how to dispose of it to the best bidder, / For a barrack or malthouse, we now must consider."
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          "ref": "1892, Joseph Jacobs (editor), Jack and His Master, Celtic Fairy Tales",
          "text": "When he was coming into the bawn at dinner-time, what work did he find Jack at but pulling armfuls of the thatch off the roof, and peeping into the holes he was making?"
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        "A cattle-fort; a building used to shelter cattle."
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          "text": "The cattle, therefore, would be brought into the bawn at night, as is stated by the early 17th-century writer Fynes Moryson who wrote that the Irish cattle “eat only by day, and then are brought at evening within the bawns of castles, where they stand or lie all night in a dirty yard without so much as a lock of hay.”",
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        "A defensive wall built around a tower house. It was once used to protect livestock during an attack."
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      "ipa": "/bɔːn/"
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      "rhymes": "-ɔːn"
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          "text": "The Grand Question Debated\nWhether Hamilton's Bawn Should be Turned into a Barrack or a Malt-house − 1729\nThis Hamilton's bawn, while it sticks in my hand, / I lose by the house what I get by the land; / But how to dispose of it to the best bidder, / For a barrack or malthouse, we now must consider."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1892, Joseph Jacobs (editor), Jack and His Master, Celtic Fairy Tales",
          "text": "When he was coming into the bawn at dinner-time, what work did he find Jack at but pulling armfuls of the thatch off the roof, and peeping into the holes he was making?"
        }
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          "text": "The cattle, therefore, would be brought into the bawn at night, as is stated by the early 17th-century writer Fynes Moryson who wrote that the Irish cattle “eat only by day, and then are brought at evening within the bawns of castles, where they stand or lie all night in a dirty yard without so much as a lock of hay.”",
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