"beefarm" meaning in English

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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "word": "bee farm"
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        {
          "ref": "1915, The Australasian Beekeeper, Pender Bros., pages 84, 156",
          "text": "Beefarm Sites and Ranges, 25. […] Ask questions in next A.B.K. for a remedy for prickled blood. A number of beefarms in Victoria are suffering from it this year.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1918, International Review of Agricultural Economics, volume 9, page 917",
          "text": "Areas of no more than ten acres of crown land may be granted as bee-arms on annual licenses, the rent being one shilling an acre per annum. A bee-range license may be secured on payment of one halfpenny for every [a]cre of crown land within a mile of the beefarm; and all suitable timber, [e]ven on land held under a grazing lease or license, may, for the purpose of beefarms, be protected from destruction on any area.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1928, Modern Beekeeping, page 215",
          "text": "Such a man is W. C. Greenleaf of Muir, Michigan. He runs a dairy and beefarm.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1943, Rural India, volume 6, page 254",
          "text": "Honey Yield at the Govt. Beefarm Nagrota 1936–42.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1947, South African Bee Journal, page 18",
          "text": "These are popular in Scotland and the north and as the brood-boxes take 15 frames they are a useful large hive, but we shall not keep those. They were brought in from a Wiltshire beefarm which was taken over and they will be disposed of when convenient.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1949, Proceedings, All India Bee-keepers' Association, page 11",
          "text": "But, my object has always been to own a big commercial beefarm and to become a large scale honey-producer.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1976, Scottish Beekeeper, Scottish Beekeepers' Association, Practical Experience and Help on Beefarms Through an International Youth Exchange Programme / by kare bjornstol, page 47",
          "text": "[…] and those who want to stay to work for a few months on a beefarm abroad. (Please state which country you are interested in.)",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1993, Peter Redgrove, “The Mountain”, in The Laborators, Taxus Press, page 27",
          "text": "The beefarm on her sloping meadows, the sweet / Exacting spaces spinning honey; / Under the elms and the sycamores / The light leaves cherish many flowers, / The light air under the boughs threaded / With the vivid bees who return",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013 July 29, Christopher Redmond, “The Present”, in Sherlock Holmes and the Lufton Lady, MX Publishing, Limited",
          "text": "But shortly after the pair had moved into the small cottage and set up the beefarm, a woman with eyes as blue as Wedgwood - and spry for an older woman - joined them.",
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        }
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        "Alternative spelling of bee farm"
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          "word": "bee farm"
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        {
          "ref": "1915, The Australasian Beekeeper, Pender Bros., pages 84, 156",
          "text": "Beefarm Sites and Ranges, 25. […] Ask questions in next A.B.K. for a remedy for prickled blood. A number of beefarms in Victoria are suffering from it this year.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1918, International Review of Agricultural Economics, volume 9, page 917",
          "text": "Areas of no more than ten acres of crown land may be granted as bee-arms on annual licenses, the rent being one shilling an acre per annum. A bee-range license may be secured on payment of one halfpenny for every [a]cre of crown land within a mile of the beefarm; and all suitable timber, [e]ven on land held under a grazing lease or license, may, for the purpose of beefarms, be protected from destruction on any area.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1928, Modern Beekeeping, page 215",
          "text": "Such a man is W. C. Greenleaf of Muir, Michigan. He runs a dairy and beefarm.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1943, Rural India, volume 6, page 254",
          "text": "Honey Yield at the Govt. Beefarm Nagrota 1936–42.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1947, South African Bee Journal, page 18",
          "text": "These are popular in Scotland and the north and as the brood-boxes take 15 frames they are a useful large hive, but we shall not keep those. They were brought in from a Wiltshire beefarm which was taken over and they will be disposed of when convenient.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1949, Proceedings, All India Bee-keepers' Association, page 11",
          "text": "But, my object has always been to own a big commercial beefarm and to become a large scale honey-producer.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1976, Scottish Beekeeper, Scottish Beekeepers' Association, Practical Experience and Help on Beefarms Through an International Youth Exchange Programme / by kare bjornstol, page 47",
          "text": "[…] and those who want to stay to work for a few months on a beefarm abroad. (Please state which country you are interested in.)",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1993, Peter Redgrove, “The Mountain”, in The Laborators, Taxus Press, page 27",
          "text": "The beefarm on her sloping meadows, the sweet / Exacting spaces spinning honey; / Under the elms and the sycamores / The light leaves cherish many flowers, / The light air under the boughs threaded / With the vivid bees who return",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013 July 29, Christopher Redmond, “The Present”, in Sherlock Holmes and the Lufton Lady, MX Publishing, Limited",
          "text": "But shortly after the pair had moved into the small cottage and set up the beefarm, a woman with eyes as blue as Wedgwood - and spry for an older woman - joined them.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
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        "Alternative spelling of bee farm"
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