A variant spelling or dialectal form of gowpen; a double handful used as a measurement.
Dialectal variant of 'gowpen,' with '-in' as an alternative ending form common in some Scottish and Northern English dialects.
Different spellings like 'gowpin' versus 'gowpen' show how dialect speakers spelled phonetically before standardized spelling existed—their spelling actually tells us how they pronounced words centuries ago.
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