Bavin (wood) was a traditional unit of firewood, a large log.
Description and use A bavin in the 16thC was a piece of wood standardised as three foot long and two feet round.R Fortey, The Wood for the Trees (2016) p. 154 In Hampshire in the early19thC, its cost was between 6 and 15 shillings per hundred bavins.D Le Faye ed., Jane Austen’s Letters (OUP 1995) p. 432
Charles Vancouver in 1813 wrote of "Bavins for heating the oven and making a sudden but transient fire".D Le Faye ed., Jane Austen’s Letters (OUP 1995) p. 432 Bavins were used especially by bakers.R Fortey, The Wood for the Trees (2016) p. 207
Literary associations Jane Austen in 1814 complained to her sister that “My Mother’s Wood is brought in-but by some mistake, no Bavins. She must therefore buy some”.D Le Faye ed., Jane Austen’s Letters (OUP 1995) p. 264
See also Faggot (unit) Fascine Withy
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