skep

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A basket.
    — 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.
    — 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.
动词 v.
  1. To transfer (bees) into a skep. transitive

词形变化

skeps plural skeps present,singular,third-person skepping participle,present skepped participle,past skepped past

词汇关系

衍生词
beeskep bread-skep skepful skeppist
相关词
creel skip

词源

词源 1
Late Old English sceppe, from Old Norse skeppa (“basket”). Cognate with Danish skæppe (“an old Danish unit of measure equalling 17.4 l”).
词源 2
Late Old English sceppe, from Old Norse skeppa (“basket”). Cognate with Danish skæppe (“an old Danish unit of measure equalling 17.4 l”).
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