skep

/skep/US // skɛp //UK // (skɛp) //

歪曲,倾斜,歪斜,歪歪扭扭

Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
- : a round farm basket of wicker or wood.
- : Also skepful. the amount contained in a skep.
- : a beehive, especially of straw.

Skep, skep, n. a grain-basket, or beehive made of straw or wicker-work.
Suddenly the skep was enveloped in a cyclone of bees, and again the orchard sang with the exciting song of the wings.
An apiary of a single skep in a roped-off enclosure was an illustration of unfamiliarity with bees.
Tom Dinass was there, too, in charge with the engineer of the skep, to ensure a safe descent.
First, the old-fashioned plan of keeping the bees in a common bell-shaped straw hive, or skep.