bavin/ˈbæ.vɪn/EtymologyPerhaps Old French baffe (“a faggot”).adjMade of firewood or kindling.“The skipping King, he ambled up and down, / With shallow jesters, and rash bavin wits, / Soon kindled and soon burnt, carded his state, / Mingled his royalty with capering fools,”nounA bundle of wood or twigs, which may be used in broom-making.“[…]that hot love is soon cold: that the bavin, though it burn bright, is but a blaze: that scalding water, it if stand awhile, turneth almost to ice[…]”A bundle of wood or twigs, which may be used in broom-making.; A faggot bound with only one band.Impure limestone.“The concretions […] are called 'bavin,' the shale associated with them being termed 'rotch.'”verbTo bundle and bind wood into bavins.