mawn

名词 n.
中文释义
发音 môn

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A maund; a basket or hamper. Scotland,dialectal
    — 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.
  2. Peat.
    — […] there lived, high up the breast of one of the loftiest mountains, in a hut among the black mawn-pits, - the world of human haunts in soundless depth below, above her only the cloud, the crag, the kite, - a melancholy woman[…]
  3. A ghost.
    — 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’.

词形变化

mawns plural

词源

Welsh mawn
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