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chawn

I. chawn, n. Obs. or dial.
    Also 7 chawne, choane, chone, chaun.
    [Identical in meaning with chine n.1, and perh. a deriv. of chine v.1, of which the pa. tense was in OE. cán, ME. chane, chone; but the form-history is by no means clear.]
    A gap, cleft, chink, rift, fissure; a chine.

1601 Holland Pliny I. 37 In one place the walls of cities are laid along: in another they be swallowed vp in a deepe and wide chawne. 1609Amm. Marcell. xvii. vii. 89 The earth waxing drie..openeth very great chinkes and wide chawnes. 1611 Cotgr., Fendasse, a cleft, rift, chop, choane. 1627 T. Jackson Chr. Obed. iii. Wks. 1844 XII. 244 An earthquake..made a chaun or rift in the roof of the temple. 1688 R. Holme Armoury ii. 82/1 An Adams Apple [hath] some rifts, chaps, or chones thereon. 1708 Motteux Rabelais iv. lii, I was..plagu'd with Chaps, Chawns and Piles at the Fundament. 1799 Rev. F. Leighton (Shrewsbury) MS. Lett. to Rev. J. Boucher 26 Feb. Shropshire word chone, meaning a chap, gap, or cut in the flesh of the fingers, from excessive cold.

II. chawn, v. Obs.
    Also 6–7 chaune, 7 chawne, choane.
    [Like the n. found about 1600, and during the early part of 17th c. The vb. was probably from the n.: cf. chine n.1 and v.1]
    Hence chawned, chawning, ppl. adjs.
    1. intr. To gape open.

1601 Holland Pliny I. 435 That the threshing floors should be wrought and tempered with oile lees, that they might not chawn & gape. 1610Camden's Brit. i. 512 Arches..now chinking and chawning for age. 1610 W. Folkingham Art of Survey i. viii. 19 Salt, bitter, chauning, burnt, parched..grounds.

    2. trans. To cleave or rive asunder; to cause to gape open.

1600 Marston Antonio & Mell. i. iii, O thou all-bearing earth..O chaune thy breast, And let me sinke into thee. 1611 Cotgr., Crevasser, to chop, chawne, chap, chinke, riue or cleaue asunder. Ibid. Fendiller, to..chap, choane, open.

    3. trans. = chine v.2

a 1693 Urquhart Rabelais iii. xxviii. 235 Chawned cod.

III. chawn
    obs. form of khan.

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