Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who keeps honey-bees; an apiarist.

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Examples

  • I loved the bit where an equally peculiar couple wandered in: a bee-keeper and paper restorer, looking for someone to fix their television.

    Radio review: The Wireless World of Gerry Wells 2010

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

    Bee-Keeper Achieves New Feat | Impact Lab 2007

  • 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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