"mawn" meaning in English

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    {
      "form": "mawns",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1887, Thomas Hardy, The Woodlanders, Harper & Brothers, page 173",
          "text": "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.",
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      "glosses": [
        "A maund; a basket or hamper."
      ],
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Scotland, dialect) A maund; a basket or hamper."
      ],
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        "Scotland",
        "dialectal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2006, Watkin Tench, A Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson, University of Adelaide, archived from the original on 2010-10-10, page 7",
          "text": "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’.",
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A ghost."
      ],
      "id": "en-mawn-en-noun-M4EDrR8T"
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  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/mɔːn/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɔːn"
    },
    {
      "enpr": "môn"
    }
  ],
  "word": "mawn"
}

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      "form": "mawns",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
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        "Scottish English"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1887, Thomas Hardy, The Woodlanders, Harper & Brothers, page 173",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A maund; a basket or hamper."
      ],
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        "(Scotland, dialect) A maund; a basket or hamper."
      ],
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        "dialectal"
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          "ref": "2006, Watkin Tench, A Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson, University of Adelaide, archived from the original on 2010-10-10, page 7",
          "text": "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’.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A ghost."
      ]
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    {
      "ipa": "/mɔːn/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɔːn"
    },
    {
      "enpr": "môn"
    }
  ],
  "word": "mawn"
}