skep
IPA: skˈɛp
noun
- A basket.
- A beehive made of straw or wicker.
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Examples of "skep" in Sentences
- A skep is placed inside the bee bole.
- The hole in the skep faces onto this lip.
- Beekeepers either drove the bees out of the skep, or killed them.
- I had to laugh as I read the author's rhapsody about my bee skep.
- In its simplest form, there is a single entrance at the bottom of the skep.
- In the vegetable garden a traditional straw bee skep looks like it belongs.
- People, you must "skep" when it rains, as the clouds are drying up in this, our beloved country!
- And his new book, "A Death in Belmont," in stores April 18, ought to make skep-tics give the guy a rethink.
- Crossing the meadow, Konstantin Levin came out onto the road, and met an old man with a swollen eye, carrying a skep on his shoulder.
- Die verdeeldheid van die verlede te heel en 'n samelewing gegrond op demokratiese waardes, maatskaplike geregtigheid en basiese menseregte te skep;
- Aren't they looking -- isn't GM looking at hydrogen, sort of, they're looking to skip this skep, this step, excuse me, and going on to the next one?
- All the backing and shifting you do does nothing but give the impression that every time the light begins to dawn—the light that you so earnestly believe you provide for so me women—you skep desperately away from it.
- As he could no longer conveniently throw the earth from the hole he took a "skep" or leaf basket, which lay handy, and, placing it beside him, put as much of the sandy soil as he could carry into it, and then lifting shot it on the edge of the pit.
- Several of the men were there standing about the square iron-bound box attached by a wire rope to a wheel overhead, and known as the skep, which, with another, would be the conveyances of the ore that was to be found, from deep down in the mine to the surface, or, as the miners termed it, to grass; and until the man-engine was finished this was the ordinary way up and down.
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