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Brother Paul's Mormon Bathroon Reader
These skeps could carry a skepful of whatever. And that's what the ages-old
beehive started to be called— a skep— probably by accident. HOME SWEET
HOME Sometime during those Middle Ages, some bees probably found an
abandoned ...
Paul B. Skousen, Harold K. Moon, 2005
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The Quest for the Perfect Hive: A History of Innovation in ...
... the oldest use of the term dates back to 1100, when a skep was a unit of
measure; the amount of grain or coal that could be held in a basket of a specific
size was called a “skepful.” A skep was also the name ofa particular kind ofbasket
in the ...
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English Language Word Builder
... GALABIAh LATAKIA MEROPIA ONYCHIA PYREXIAI SCANDIA TILAPIA
WOODSIA PAIRIAL ETESIAN SAURIAN AUXETIC EIDETIC GLYPTIC KINESIC
PTARMIC TELEPIC GUTSFUL PAILFUL SKEPFUL CUPHEAD RAWHEAD
GODHOOD ...
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A Glossary of Yorkshire Words and Phrases: Collected in ...
The tithes of certain grain were paid to Whitby Monastery in " Skepfuls," but the
specific amount of a skepful does not appear. " A bee-skep," a straw beehive. To
Skerl or Skirl, to scream. " It skirled like a pig in a yat," like a pig jammed in a gate.
Francis Kildale Robinson, 1855
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A Dictionary of Weights and Measures for the British Isles: ...
Rolls), skype (OED); 5-6 skyppe; 5-7 skepp; 6 skeipp (OED); 7-9 skip (OED); 8
scape (OED), scope (OED), schepe; 9 skape (OED), skeb (OED); ? L escheppa (
Prior), L eschippa (Prior) [ME skep fr OE sceppe, skepful, fr ON skeppa , bushel] .
Ronald Edward Zupko, 1985
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The English dialect dictionary, being the complete ...
Yka.fl Tithes of grain were paid to Whitbyr Abbey in skepl'uls, but the quantity of a
skepful is not specified. 3. Any handy receptacle; used in a gen. sense. III-1b.! A
meal skep is the dish in which oatmeal is kept. 4. A coal-scuttle; gen. in comp.
SEEDLING TREES. 143 shut on it like dyke-water. There was great robbery
going on ; there was a stone of plum cake — it was rather heavy, but not bad —
and we found a skepful of the pieces under the table ; so the waiters and me, we
got ...
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British Bee Journal & Bee-keepers Adviser
giauting your request, .Mr. Potter, i.e.. in throwing a skepful of bees over you, as
my diminutive stature would not be at its best on a pair of steps ! But I really do
think it would be time well spent, Mr. Potter, if some of you older- fashioned ...
With a good fire and a skepful of sticks gathered inthe woods forhis hearth, now
improved after being raisedon bricks,Phillip wentonwith his book in River View. It
had become his habit to start writing as soon as he had risen and washed every ...
Next day I shot a harnser, and I goes in for cooken' his legs and amaken' o' this
paste, and there yer are. It be about time ter give over, we ha' got a skepful.
Daresay I'm a fule ter ha' told yer, but if ever I hears yer ha' let it out I ha' done wi'
yer.
Charles Fielding Marsh, 1903
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