Obs. [f. prec. sb.] trans. To bind up into bavins.

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1664.  Evelyn, Sylva (1776), 538. Kid or Bavin them (the underwood) … to preserve them from rotting.

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1685.  Cotton, Montaigne, II. 516. They saw [him] ingeniously bavin up a burthen of brushwood.

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