What is "skep"

Usage examples of "skep".

If for example, it is assumed that each box of frames in a Langstroth hive has the same capacity as the straw skep hive, the Langstroth hive can easily be enlarged four or five fold.

Meanwhile the down-time beekeeper has to find a way to encourage the colony to spread out into another three or four straw skep hives.

The skep full was indeed a wonderful feast for them, they bit greedily into the heavy scented comb, their jaws were drowned in the sticky flood of sweetness, and they gorged themselves on it without restraint.

When they had crunched up the last morsel they tore the skep in pieces, and for hours afterwards they were happily employed in licking themselves clean.

Most shook their heads skep tically and a few turned away from the ring.

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.

One evening he went to a cottager who had a row of skeps, and bought one of them, just as it was after the man had smothered the bees.

At the far end of the orchard he could see bee skeps tended by an elderly monk.

Others in straw skeps, grey as old thatch and starting to soften up and cave in at the crowns.

At this period there resided at Oulton Hall, Suffolk, but a few miles from Norwich, a family of the name of Skepper, Edward and Anne his wife, with their two children, Breame and Mary.

Beneath this stone are interred in the same grave the Mortal Remains of Edmund Skepper, who died Febry.

Beneath this stone are interred the Mortal Remains of Breame Skepper, who died May 22nd, 1837, aged 42, leaving a wife and six children to lament his severe loss.

At the end of this year he became friendly with the family of Skepper, including the widowed Mrs.

One evening he went to a cottager who had a row of skeps, and bought one of them, just as it was after the man had smothered the bees.