skep

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A basket.

   “Old women crouched over bags of Siamese rice, skeps of red and green peppers, purple egg-plants, bristly rambutans, pineapples, durians.”

2. isim A beehive made of straw or wicker.

   “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.”

3. fiil To transfer (bees) into a skep.