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Cavin vs Bavin - What's the difference?

cavin | bavin |

As nouns the difference between cavin and bavin

is that cavin is (military) a hollow route, adapted to cover troops and facilitate their approach to a place while 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.

cavin

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (military) A hollow route, adapted to cover troops and facilitate their approach to a place.
    • (Farrow)
    (Webster 1913)

    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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