Definition of "aven" []

• A vertical shaft leading upward from a cave passage, sometimes connecting with passages above (noun)
• A pothole (noun)

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• "This was very likely what Vannay called aven kal, words which meant lifted on the wind or carried on the wave."
• "They were then in the part of the day's activities Roland called aven-car: carrying the kill and preparing to make it into something else."
• "Hi 'aven't' ad a bite the blessed dy, an 'Hi'm that fynt ..."