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Bavin vs Savin - What's the difference?

bavin | savin |

As nouns the difference between bavin and savin

is that bavin is a bundle of wood, or twigs which may be used in broom making. Southern England term. Also, a fagot bound with only one band while savin is the evergreen shrub species: Juniperus sabina, endemic to Europe, which yields a medicinal oil.

bavin

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A bundle of wood, or twigs which may be used in broom making. Southern England term. Also, a fagot bound with only one band.
  • (UK, dialect) impure limestone
  • * 1839 : The Silurian System by , i. xxxvi. 484
    • "The concretions…are called ?bavin ,? the shale associated with them being termed ?rotch.?"
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    savin

    English

    (wikipedia savin) (Juniperus sabina) (Juniperus virginiana)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The evergreen shrub , endemic to Europe, which yields a medicinal oil.
  • The poisonous dried tips of this plant, with anthelmintic properties, used as a drug.
  • * 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.ii:
    • th'aged Nurse her calling to her bowre, / Had gathered Rew, and Sauine , and the flowre / Of Camphara, and Calamint, and Dill, / All which she in a earthen Pot did poure [...].
  • The eastern red cedar, Juniperus virginiana .

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