"skep" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "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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  "pos": "noun",
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      "word": "creel"
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          "ref": "1956, Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 115:",
          "text": "Old women crouched over bags of Siamese rice, skeps of red and green peppers, purple egg-plants, bristly rambutans, pineapples, durians.",
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      ],
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        "A basket."
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        [
          "basket",
          "basket"
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          "kind": "topical",
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          "name": "Animal dwellings",
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          "parents": [
            "Buildings and structures",
            "Zoology",
            "Architecture",
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            "Applied sciences",
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          "_dis": "3 97",
          "kind": "topical",
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          "name": "Beekeeping",
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          "parents": [
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          "kind": "topical",
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          "name": "Containers",
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          "parents": [
            "Tools",
            "Technology",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
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        {
          "ref": "1958, John Crompton, A Hive of Bees:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1977, Patrick O'Brian, The Mauritius Command:",
          "text": "He prised a skep from its stool and held it out, inverted, showing the dirty wreck of combs, with the vile grubs spinning their cocoons.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2020, Maggie O'Farrell, Hamnet:",
          "text": "She installs seven skeps at the furthest edge of the garden; on warm July days it is possible to hear the restless rumble of the bees from the house.",
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        }
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      "glosses": [
        "A beehive made of straw or wicker."
      ],
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          "beehive"
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        [
          "straw",
          "straw"
        ],
        [
          "wicker",
          "wicker"
        ]
      ],
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          "roman": "pleten košer",
          "sense": "beehive",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "плетен кошер"
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          "lang": "Galician",
          "sense": "beehive",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
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          "word": "covo"
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          "lang": "Galician",
          "sense": "beehive",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
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          "word": "trobo"
        }
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    {
      "rhymes": "-ɛp"
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  "pos": "noun",
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      ],
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        {
          "ref": "1958, John Crompton, A Hive of Bees:",
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          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1977, Patrick O'Brian, The Mauritius Command:",
          "text": "He prised a skep from its stool and held it out, inverted, showing the dirty wreck of combs, with the vile grubs spinning their cocoons.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2020, Maggie O'Farrell, Hamnet:",
          "text": "She installs seven skeps at the furthest edge of the garden; on warm July days it is possible to hear the restless rumble of the bees from the house.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
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        "A beehive made of straw or wicker."
      ],
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          "beehive"
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          "straw",
          "straw"
        ],
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          "wicker",
          "wicker"
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      "roman": "pleten košer",
      "sense": "beehive",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "плетен кошер"
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      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "beehive",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
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      "word": "covo"
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      "sense": "beehive",
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