Meanings of skep in English

He was sitting in the chair outside the front door, mending a skep.

An apiary of a single skep in a roped-off enclosure was an illustration of unfamiliarity with bees.

Add eke after eke to the skep, and still seems it too small to contain all the insects.

Mr. Clare readily consented to spare his housekeeper, but the housekeeper was untoward, she was "busied in her housewife skep," and would not stir.

He kept his back to me, pretending to examine the Skep.

It was the cattle herd at Skep Dhû garrison that the dragon hit.

You've left a bit of a mess up by the Skep.

'Show me the skeps-have you put the mouse guard on for the winter?

Skep came to be thought a kind of relaxation, and "sleeping on the job" a heinous sin.

"Commander Rocklys said she could dispatch one to meet you at Skep Dhû."

But Skep Dhû is the boundary garrison in these parts, and beyond it, the bandit troops might still be at large.

"Why were you up at the Skep with him?"

He turned away from me, back toward the Holy Skep, which the monks took outside in springtime to be a dwelling for her blessed bees.