mawn

noun

1. (Scotland, dialectal)A maund; a basket or hamper.

   “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. 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’.”

3. 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[…]”

   “[…] mawn pits on a distant part of the Common. It is a bad mawn harvest this year in consequence of the wet summer and what with the dear coal and bread and meat and the diseased potatoes, I don't know what the poor people will do.”

   “[…] the wastes made impassable by crevasses; the mawn-pits that could swallow a man and his mount before either was aware of them.”

   “There are some extensive mawn pits near this village, from whence the inhabitants procure their chief fuel: it is cut up and harvested in the summer, and with a little wood makes a very good fire.”

   “[…] throughout the mawn pools and larger bogs of Radnorshire but the largest numbers in Wales are found in the old county of […]”