Sc. Also boy(e)n, boin. A flat shallow tub or bowl (cf. BOWIE).
1821. Galt, Ann. Parish, 46 (Jam.). Her seam … had fallen into a boyne of milk. Ibid., Ayrsh. Legatees, 265 (Jam.). The lasses were … standing upright before the boyns on chairs, rubbin the clothes.
1826. J. Wilson, Noct. Ambr., Wks. 1855, I. 97. Take a peck of purtatoes and put them into a boyne.
