英和和英

発音

• IPA: /ˈskɛp/
• 韻: -ɛp

名詞

skep (plural skeps)

1. A basket.
   • 1956, Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 115:

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

2. A beehive made of straw or wicker.

   Synonym: skip

   Hypernyms: beehive, hive

   • 1958, John Crompton, A Hive of Bees:

     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.

   • 1977, Patrick O'Brian, The Mauritius Command:

     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.

   • 2020, Maggie O'Farrell, Hamnet:

     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.

派生語

参考

• creel
• skip

動詞

skep (third-person singular simple present skeps, present participle skepping, simple past and past participle skepped)

1. (transitive) To transfer (bees) into a skep.