English Dictionary

bawn

IPA（発音記号）

/bɔːn/

名詞

A cattle-fort; a building used to shelter cattle. / A defensive wall built around a tower house. It was once used to protect livestock during an attack.

日本語の意味

ウシ囲い：牛を保護するための建物。または塔屋の周囲に築かれた防御壁。攻撃時に家畜を守るために使われた。

The herdsman led his herd of cattle into the old bawn before the storm hit, trusting the stone walls would keep them safe.

嵐が来る前に、牛飼いは群れを古い家畜用の砦に導き、石造りの壁が牛たちを守ってくれると信じていた。

意味（1）

A cattle-fort; a building used to shelter cattle.

But these round hills and square bawnes, which you see so strongly trenched and throwne up

意味（2）

A defensive wall built around a tower house. It was once used to protect livestock during an attack.

The cattle, therefore, would be brought into the bawn at night, as is stated by the early 17th-century writer Fynes Moryson who wrote that the Irish cattle “eat only by day, and then are brought at evening within the bawns of castles, where they stand or lie all night in a dirty yard without so much as a lock of hay.”

bawns （ plural ）