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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[Icel.

skeppa

a measure, bushel; cf. Gael.

sgeap

a basket, a beehive.]

A coarse round farm basket.

[Obs. or Prov. Eng. & Scot.]

Tusser.

A beehive.

[Prov. Eng. & Scot.]

Noun.

A sort of basket, narrow at the bottom and wide at the top. [Not used in America.]

skep ‎(plural skeps)

a basket
a beehive made of straw or wicker
- 1977: 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. — Patrick O'Brian, The Mauritius Command