单词 | superhive |
释义 | superhiven. Bee-keeping. A removable upper compartment of a hive, usually separated from the brood chamber by a queen excluder, in which worker bees store honey and which may be detached and the honey extracted when full. Cf. super n.6 ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > bee-keeping > [noun] > beehive > parts of moutha1398 stool?1523 skirt1555 hackle1609 smoot1615 imp1618 bolster1623 cop1623 underlaya1642 hack1658 tee-hole1669 frame1673 hood1686 alighting board1780 body box1823 superhive1847 super1855 quilt1870 queen excluder1881 bar-super1884 brood box1888 1847 R. Golding Shilling Bee Bk. 34 When..it is found that the combs of a super hive are well filled, and pretty much sealed up, it may be removed. 1855 Poultry Chron. 2 514 The cap or super-hive may be removed once or twice during the summer, with from 20 to 40 lbs. of honey. 1868 J. W. Pagden £70 a-Year 29 At what date they took to the super hive, and how much honey it contained when last examined, [etc.]. 1922 Sugar Feb. 90/2 Towards the closing down of the active period, or when the rainy period commences, put a full depth super hive over the brood chamber, or lower story. 2009 G. Budd One Miracle after Another (2010) x. 115 Loading 85 superhives in a truck, he traveled several hours to the mountains where abundant fields of clover had provided him many years of the finest honey. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † superhivev. Bee-keeping. Obsolete. transitive. To locate (a swarm of bees) in a removable upper compartment of a hive; to place such a compartment on top of (a hive). rare. ΚΠ 1796 J. Keys Antient Bee-Master's Farewell xxii. 176 Take the combs out, and save the brood; or if the honey or brood be small in quantity, reserve the hive as it was left, to super-hive a stock next year, or to put a swarm in. 1796 J. Keys Antient Bee-Master's Farewell Explan. Terms p. xiv Super-hive, to set one Hive above another. 1847 R. Golding Shilling Bee Bk. 34 A stock hive, well furnished with worker combs, should be superhived as long as its tenants prosper. Derivatives superhiving n. ΚΠ 1827 E. Bevan Honey-bee xxi. 172 This has induced me to enter into a descriptive detail of the whole business of super-hiving, nadir-hiving, and deprivation. 1884 J. Phin Dict. Apiculture 70 Super-hiving, the opposite of Nadir-hiving. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online September 2018). < n.1847v.1796 |
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