Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who keeps honey-bees; an apiarist.
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Examples
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I loved the bit where an equally peculiar couple wandered in: a bee-keeper and paper restorer, looking for someone to fix their television.
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Dammit, Commie, you screwed up my lame Amish porn joke by posting actual Amish porn before I could post the reference to the girl in the bee-keeper outfit as representing Amish porn.
BSNYC Product Review: Bicycle Book Shootout! BikeSnobNYC 2009
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In "The Council of Drones" a bee-keeper exchanges consciousness with a Queen bee, planning to understand them better.
Archive 2008-03-01 Karen Burnham 2008
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In "The Council of Drones" a bee-keeper exchanges consciousness with a Queen bee, planning to understand them better.
Science Fiction of the 30's, ed. Damon Knight Karen Burnham 2008
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The surly bee-keeper saved a comb of honey for us, the dairy women had a sip of cream for us, the cowboys showed off for us, riding bull-calves or vaulting an old cow's horns, and the old shepherd Ino showed us how to make piping flutes of oat-straw.
'Lavinia' 2008
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In 1965, after receiving a vision involving bees, little Lily Owens Dakota Fanning runs away from her abusive Southern father and into the company of three African-American bee-keeper sisters producing a brand of honey called Black Madonna.
Archive 2008-11-01 2008
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I think I will still continue using honey have a bee-keeper in the family, but I will try the addition of tomato paste and some water.
balsamic-glazed sweet and sour cipollini | smitten kitchen 2008
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In 1965, after receiving a vision involving bees, little Lily Owens Dakota Fanning runs away from her abusive Southern father and into the company of three African-American bee-keeper sisters producing a brand of honey called Black Madonna.
*The Secret Life of Bees* sings honey-sweet and never stings 2008
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A bee-keeper in Quanzhou, Fujian, risked his life by having 120,000 bees crawling all over his body on Monday, becoming the first person in the province to successfully achieve the feat
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And one day last summer when working out on a farm all day and having things in my hands most of the time so couldn't even try to shoo the flies from my face, I was forced to resort to hanging muslin over my hat and tying it around my neck like a bee-keeper.
The worst thing about summer StyleyGeek 2006
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