WordNet
n. habitation for wasps or hornets [syn: wasps' nest, hornet's nest, hornets' nest]
Wikipedia
Wasp's Nest was a television play broadcast on the BBC Television Service on 18 June 1937. It was adapted from the short story of the same name by crime writer Agatha Christie which had first appeared in the Daily Mail on 20 November 1928 and first appeared in book form in the US collection Double Sin and Other Stories in 1961. It first appeared in a UK collection in Poirot's Early Cases in 1974.
The play is unique in that it is the only instance of Christie adapting one of her works for television, a medium she later came to dislike. It was broadcast live from Alexandra Palace as part of the programme Theatre Parade. The broadcast took place at 3.35 pm and lasted for twenty-five minutes. It was then repeated the same evening at 9.40 pm and lasted for twenty minutes. Theatre Parade usually showcased successful stage shows of the time but in this instance presented an original work.
The play was only broadcast in the London area as this was the only part of the UK that could receive television transmissions at this time. Neither transmissions were recorded for future viewing as television recording equipment had not been invented at this point in time.
The play is notable for starring Francis L. Sullivan in the part of Hercule Poirot, reprising his portrayal of the character following his success in the stage play Black Coffee in 1930.
Usage examples of "wasp's nest".
And as it danced, a wasp's nest came into being and into it, the wasp soon crawled.
Admin thought a SWAT team was what you sent to deal with a wasp's nest in a ventilation duct.
I'm afraid that if we start knocking there we'll find ourselves deep in a wasp's nest.
He goeth into a wasp's nest or a bees' nest, and the whole swarm may sting him and he feeleth it not.
For instance, the grove of a Hivemaster might contain a wasp's nest or beehive from which a druid could call an insect plague once per day, while a swamp druid's grove could feature a patch of firm ground that turns suddenly to quicksandlike mud (as in a rock to mud spell).
Had he seen it as it really was, my father might have thought it an organic thing, something like a gigantic wasp's nest Boating in the sky.
We nosed into contact with a landing tower, like a fly landing on the side of a wasp's nest.
Tipped them off that someone had broken into the Wasp's Nest base?
It was no more difficult than maintaining the doctor's expensive car-which was now parked in the lowest of the Wasp's Nest parking lots, and which would be gathering dust if he didn't go up there every few days to clean it with a soft cloth and agonize over the ruined grill and cracked windshield.