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Definition of 'bullaun'

English

Noun

(wikipedia) (en-noun)
  • A natural depression in a stone, often filled with water and sometimes pebbles.
  • * 1972 , Seamus Heaney], "A New Song", [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wintering_Out Wintering Out, Faber and Faber (1972):
  • *:And Castledawson we'll enlist
  • *:And Upperlands, each planted bawn-
  • *:Like bleaching-greens resumed by grass-
  • *:A vocable, as rath and bullaun .
  • * 1987 , Paul Muldoon], "Brock", [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meeting_The_British Meeting The British, Faber and Faber (1987):
  • *:For when he shuffles
  • *:across the esker
  • *:I glimpse my grandfather’s whiskers
  • *:
  • *:stained with tobacco-pollen.
  • *:When he piddles against a bullaun
  • *:I know he carries bovine TB