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Skep

noun
1.
A large round wicker basket (used on farms).
2.
A domed beehive made of twisted straw.





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"Skep" Quotes from Famous Books



... to spare his housekeeper, but the housekeeper was untoward, she was "busied in her housewife skep," and would not stir. Alick was gone to Timber End, and Rachel was just talking of getting the schoolmaster's wife as an escort, ...
— The Clever Woman of the Family • Charlotte M. Yonge


Words linked to "Skep" :   handbasket, hive, basket, beehive


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