bullaun
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editbullaun (plural bullauns)
- A natural depression in a stone, often filled with water and sometimes pebbles.
- 1972, Seamus Heaney, "A New Song", 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", 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
- 1972, Seamus Heaney, "A New Song", Wintering Out, Faber and Faber (1972):