Obs. or dial. Also 7 beun. [f. BOON sb.1]
† 1. To pray for, ask as a boon. Obs.
c. 1200. Ormin, 694. Þatt Zacariass Godess preost … Drihhten haffde bonedd. Ibid., 5223. Lef faderr, icc þe bone, Ȝiff me nu þatt twifalde gast.
2. trans. To boon away: to give away in boons.
c. 1661. in Harl. Misc. (1746), VIII. 27/1. What was got by Oppression, will be booned away by the King’s Liberality.
† 3. intr. To do boon-work: see BOON sb.1 6.
1691. Ray, N. C. Wds., 9. To Boon or Benn, to do Service to another as a Landlord.
† 4. trans. To repair (public roads). dial. Perhaps as one of the chief forms of boon-work: but there may be influence of BOON sb.1 or a. in other senses.
1783. Ainsworth, Lat. Dict. (Morell), I. To boon [repair the roads], vias hyeme corruptas æstate reparare.
1877. E. Peacock, N. W. Linc. Gloss., Boon, to repair a highway, ‘I’d hev’ all cheches pull’d doon to boon th’ roads wi’.’
