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–noun
Newfoundland
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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-E < Ir
bábhún
(earlier sp.
badhbhdhún, badhún
) enclosure, perh. equiv. to
ba,
pl. of
bó
cow +
dún
fort;
see
cow
1
,
town
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