Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.

GAWN

Definition: GAWN

GAWN

Noun

1. A small tub or lading vessel.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "GAWN" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1903. (references)

Note: Gawn \Gawn\, noun. [Corrupted from gallon.]. (Websters 1913)

"GAWN" is a common misspelling or typo for: awn, fawn, gain, gawk, gnaw, gown.

Modern Usage: GAWN

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Dawn Gawn (1958)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Top     

Frequency of Internet Keywords: GAWN

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

gawn pant ys

2

gawn wedding

2

gawn

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Top     

Rhyming with "GAWN"

Words ending with "awn": Awn, Bawn, Brawn, Flawn, Jawn, Lawn, Prawn. (additional references)

Top     

Anagrams: GAWN

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: gnaw.

Words within the letters "a-g-n-w"

-1 letter: awn, gan, nag, naw, wag, wan.

-2 letters: ag, an, aw, na.

 Words containing the letters "a-g-n-w"
 

+1 letter: awing, gnawn, gnaws, gowan, swang, twang, wagon, whang, wigan, wrang.

 

+2 letters: aweing, awning, cawing, dawing, gnawed, gnawer, gowans, gowany, hawing, jawing, lawing, mawing, pawing, sawing, tawing, twangs, twangy, wading, waggon, waging, wagons, waking, waling, wangan, wangle, wangun, waning, waring, waving, waxing, whangs, wigans, wrangs, yawing.

 

+3 letters: avowing, awaking, awnings, batwing, bawling, blawing, chawing, clawing, dawning, dawting, drawing, fawning, flawing, gangway, gawking, gawping, gnawers, gnawing, gowaned, gunwale, hawking, jigsawn, lapwing, lawings, outgnaw, pawnage, pawning, ringtaw, shawing, snawing, swaging, swagman, swagmen, swaying, tawsing, thawing, twanged, twanger, twangle, wadding, waffing, wafting, wagging, waggons, wagoned, wagoner, waifing, wailing, wairing, waiting, waiving, walking, walling, wangans, wangled, wangler, wangles, wanguns, wanigan, wanning, wantage, wanting, wapping, warding, warking, warming, warning, warping, warring, washing, wasting, wauking, wauling, wawling, waxings, waxwing, weaning, wearing, weaving, whaling, whanged, whangee, windage, windbag, wingman, wrangle, yawling, yawning, yawping.

 

+4 letters: allowing, arrowing, awaiting, awarding, awninged, bewaring, brawling, bungalow, crawling, dawdling, dewaxing, drawings, drawling, dwarfing, gangplow, gangways, gaywings, gnawable, gnawings, gownsman, greenway, gunwales, hawkings, lacewing, lapwings, longways, miaowing, outgnawn, outgnaws, parawing, pawnages, prawning, pshawing, resawing, rewaking, rewaxing, ringtaws, shawling, spawning, strawing, swabbing, swagging, swamping, swanking, swanning, swapping, swarding, swarming, swashing, swathing, swatting, swearing, sweating, swingman, thrawing, trawling, twangers, twangier, twanging, twangled, twangler, twangles, tweaking, unwaning, wabbling, waddings, waddling, waddying, wafering, waffling, wagering, waggling, waggoned, waggoner, wagonage, wagoners, wagoning, waisting, waitings, wakening, walkings, waltzing, wambling, wanglers, wangling, wanigans, wannigan, wantages, warbling, warnings, warsling, washings, watching, watering, wattling, wavering, waxwings, waygoing, weakling, weanling, wearying, weighman, whacking, whalings, whamming, whangees, whanging, whapping, wharfing, whizbang, windages, windbags, windgall, wingback, wingspan, womaning, wracking, wrangled, wrangler, wrangles, wrapping, wrathing, wreaking, yawpings.

 

+5 letters: alpenglow, angleworm, answering, asswaging, awakening, backswing, bandwagon, bewailing, bewraying, bungalows, clearwing, declawing, downgrade, downrange, downstage, fallowing, farrowing, fawningly, gangplows, gawkiness, greenways, guffawing, hallowing, harrowing, heehawing, impawning, inwalling, inweaving, jawboning, jigsawing, lacewings, lawmaking, lawyering, marrowing, narrowing, newsagent, nighthawk, nightwear, outgnawed, outlawing, overawing, parawings, rawhiding, reavowing, reawaking, redrawing, rewarding, rewarming, rewashing, reweaving, sallowing, scrawling, seesawing, shadowing, sprawling, squawking, subwaying, swaddling, tallowing, thwacking, thwarting, twaddling, twangiest, twanglers, twangling, twattling, undrawing, unweaving, upwafting, wafflings, waggoners, waggoning, wagonages, wagonette, waistings, wakenings, walloping, wallowing, wandering, wannigans, wantoning, warmonger, warningly, warstling, waterings, wauchting, waughting, wayfaring, waygoings, waylaying, weakening, weaklings, weanlings, weaponing, wearingly, weaseling, whizbangs, whizzbang, windgalls, wineglass, wingbacks, wingspans, wranglers, wrangling, wrappings, wrassling, wrastling, wreathing, yawningly.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro.

Top     

Alternative Orthography: GAWN


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

47 41 57 4E

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

=

Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

--.    .-    .--.    -.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000111 01000001 01010111 01001110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#71 &#65 &#87 &#78

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0047 0041 0057 004E

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

41355748

Top     

 

INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage: Modern
3. Expressions: Internet
4. Rhymes
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.