| 单词 | bee-gum |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbee-gum bee-gum n. a term in parts of U.S. for a beehive (originally a hollow gum tree or log housing a swarm of bees). ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > bee-keeping > [noun] > beehive hivec725 beehivec1325 ruche1494 skep1494 stall1505 butt1532 pyche1570 bee-stall1572 hive-cot1582 alveary1623 bee-skepa1634 bee-house1675 staller1712 stand1740 bee-gum1817 bink1824 bee-palace1845 1817 M. L. Weems Let. in Ford's M. L. Weens: Wks. & Ways (1929) III. 215 To be run..round & round the circumference of a Bee-Gum. 1859 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms (ed. 2) Bee-gum, in the South and West, a term originally applied to a species of the gum-tree from which bee-hives were made; and now to beehives made of any kind of boards. 1884 Cent. Mag. Jan. 442/2 The bees were for the most part rudely hived in cross sections of the gum-tree..whence..a bee-hive of any kind is often called a bee-gum. < as lemmas |
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