Beehiver

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A keeper of a beehive; beekeeper. dialectal

    "The beehiver looked at him sideways and away again. Or do ye not know where it is you're a-goin? I don't know, Holme said. Why are ye goin then? Goin where? The beehiver didn't answer."

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beekeeper

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"The beehiver looked at him sideways and away again. Or do ye not know where it is you're a-goin? I don't know, Holme said. Why are ye goin then? Goin where? The beehiver didn't answer."

Etymology

From beehive + -er.

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