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noun
Newfoundland
.
1.
a rocky stretch of foreshore on
which
caught fish are laid out to dry.
2.
a patch of grassland or meadow near a dwelling.
Origin:
1530–40;
Hiberno-English
<
Irish
bábhún
(earlier spelling
badhbhdhún, badhún
) enclosure, perhaps equivalent to
ba,
plural of
bó
cow +
dún
fort;
see
cow
1
,
town
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