skep
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English
Etymology
Late Old English sceppe, from Old Norse skeppa (“basket”). Cognate with Danish skæppe (“an old Danish unit of measure equalling 17.4 l”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈskɛp/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
- Rhymes: -ɛp
Noun
skep (plural skeps)
- 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.
- A beehive made of straw or wicker.
- 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.
Derived terms
Translations
beehive
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See also
Old Frisian
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *skāp, from Proto-Germanic *skēpą. Cognates include Old English sċēap, Old Saxon skāp and Old Dutch scāp.
Pronunciation
Noun
skēp n
Descendants
- North Frisian:
- East Frisian:
- West Frisian: skiep
References
- Norbruis, Stefan (2015) “tserne”, in Etymological Dictionary of West Frisian Farming Vocabulary[1], Leiden: Leiden University, page 43.
- Bremmer, Rolf H. (2009) An Introduction to Old Frisian: History, Grammar, Reader, Glossary, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, →ISBN
Old Norse
Verb
skep
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