Old women crouched over bags of Siamese rice, skeps of red and green peppers, purple egg-plants, bristly rambutans, pineapples, durians.
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Skep
//ˈskɛp//
Synonyms for "skep" (1 found)
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Noun(1 words)
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Translations
5 translations across 3 languages.
Bulgarian
1 entries- плетен кошер noun (beehive)
Galician
2 entries- covo noun (beehive)
- trobo noun (beehive)
Ottoman Turkish
2 entries- قوغان noun (beehive)
- پتك noun (beehive)
Sample sentences
4 total sentences available.
Three of the hives had been overturned and the others had been rocked to and fro. The modern hive is a fearful thing to upset; the combs are not static as in a skep, but hang loosely: when the hive is overturned they smash and pile up like a telescoped train.
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He prised a skep from its stool and held it out, inverted, showing the dirty wreck of combs, with the vile grubs spinning their cocoons.
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She installs seven skeps at the furthest edge of the garden; on warm July days it is possible to hear the restless rumble of the bees from the house.
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