"bawn" meaning in English

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          "text": "But these round hills and square bawnes, which you see so strongly trenched and throwne up",
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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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          "ref": "2004, Colm J. Donnelly, “Passage or Barrier? Communication between Bawn and Tower House in Late Medieval Ireland – the Evidence from County Limerick”, in Château Gaillard 21: Études de castellologie médiévale: La Basse-cour: Actes du colloque international de Maynooth (Irlande), 23-30 août 2002, page 57:",
          "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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      "ipa": "/bɔːn/"
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          "text": "Bofe de same age, sir—five months. Bawn de fust o' Feb'uary.",
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          "text": "But ef it has ter be prove' ter folks w'at wa'n't bawn en raise' in dis naberhood, dey is a' easy way ter prove it.",
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          "ref": "1900, [George] Bernard Shaw, “Captain Brassbound’s Conversion”, in Three Plays for Puritans: The Devil’s Disciple, Cæsar and Cleopatra, & Captain Brassbound’s Conversion, London: Grant Richards, […], published 1901, →OCLC, Act I, page 223:",
          "text": "Yah! You oughter bin bawn a Christian, you ought. You knaow too mach.",
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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."
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