skep

• Come on skep, you said yourself it was over a 100 years old.
• The hill was now a riddle of peat hags and binks, like a bee's skep, a place of treachery and slimy death, although the frost would have most of the sinking pools in its iron hand; but we never stopped the long stride that seemed so slow to me at first. —  The McBrides A Romance of Arran
• He kept on bursting into loud fits of barking till the ascending skep appeared, when he bounded away among the men, barking, snarling and growling savagely, for the only occupant of the skep was Dinass Hullo!" —  Sappers and Miners The Flood beneath the Sea
• Add eke after eke to the skep, and still seems it too small to contain all the insects. —  Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2
• As he could no longer conveniently throw the earth from the hole he took a "skep" or leaf basket, which lay handy, and, placing it beside him, put as much of the sandy soil as he could carry into it, and then lifting shot it on the edge of the pit. —  Colonel Quaritch, V.C. A Tale of Country Life

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