What's the difference between bawn and sawn?

Bawn


Definition:

  • (n.) An inclosure with mud or stone walls, for keeping cattle; a fortified inclosure.
  • (n.) A large house.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A series of para-substituted salicylic acids, all crystallizing monoclinically and decomposing by decarboxylation, were shown to adhere to Bawn-type kinetics, and the decomposition rate constants were shown to adhere approximately to a Hammett-type relation.

Sawn


Definition:

  • () of Saw

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We sampled a sawn-off shotgun and an assault rifle, but cops do get tasers and tear gas to add some urban flavour.
  • (2) Radiological findings on sawn sections and macroscopical and histological analysis of the retropatellar surface give evidence of osteoarthritic alterations and inflammation.
  • (3) The long bone ends of foals with infectious disease were sawn into sagittal slabs, washed and inspected.
  • (4) His wife, still recovering from the car "accident", tried to fight Seddon when he produced the sawn-off shotgun.
  • (5) The bone samples were embedded in methylmetacrylate and sawn in 400 microns thick sections with an arbitrary rotation but a fixed vertical axis.
  • (6) His hair, once memorably described as "a bit of an event", soars upwards in a sort of sawn-off pompadour.
  • (7) The African elephant, whose left tusk was sawn off, was a gift from a Portuguese king to Louis XIV in 1668.
  • (8) Afterwards, these jaws were sawn, and the real values were measured.
  • (9) When Scotsman Harry Stanley was killed by police in the same year after leaving a London pub carrying a table leg and being mistaken for an Irishman with a sawn-off shotgun he was demonised as a feckless drunk.
  • (10) You have done so by the barbaric act of shooting them at point-blank range with a sawn-off shotgun."
  • (11) As far as Bingham was concerned, wrote le CarrĂ© in the introduction, he was "a literary defector who had dragged the good name of the service through the mud", who had "supped at King Arthur's table, then sawn its legs off", and it was "no good my protesting I was engaged in a literary conceit".
  • (12) Therapeutically the procedure described by LADD is the best torsion prophylaxis; the ascending colon is sawn to the descending colon.
  • (13) In sixteen cases the claw was amputated under the coronet and in the remaining sixteen cases the claw was sawn off above the coronet, through the second phalanx.
  • (14) After polymerization the embedded filter was sawn into small blocks and the cell layer was sectioned tangentially on an ultramicrotome.
  • (15) No effect on low level of gamma-globulins and lymphatic displasia was found as sawn in an intestinal biopsy performed after three months of treatment.
  • (16) Some wore quilted affairs like sawn-off dressing gowns.
  • (17) Sixteen hours after he first drew a sawn-off shotgun from a bag and ordered the cafe closed, police stormed the building to end the standoff, Monis killed cafe manager Tori Johnson , and Monis and barrister Katrina Dawson were left dead following the gunfight.
  • (18) Since December we have been heating our home with a wood-burning stove using reclaimed materials - and if the bits are too large to go in, they have to be sawn in half.
  • (19) You obtained a sawn-off shotgun from criminal associates.
  • (20) The three men then drove all four victims, including the baby, to a remote area, where Lockett shot Neiman with a sawn-off shotgun after she refused to say she would not report them to police.

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