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beehiver en · NOUN

Etymology

From beehive + -er.

Meanings

  1. (dialectal) A keeper of a beehive; beekeeper.
    • The beehiver looked at him sideways and away again. Or do ye not know where it is you're a-goin? I don't know, Holme said. Why are ye goin then? Goin where? The beehiver didn't answer. 2010, Cormac McCarthy, Outer Dark, page 81:

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