Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In New England, a social gathering for the purpose of paring apples, which are then dried and preserved for winter use. See
bee , n., 3.
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Examples
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So when an invitation came for me to a husking-frolic, or a paring-bee, or a dance, I was not allowed to go.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 122, December, 1867 Various
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The marvelous cures the almanac recorded were of little interest, and were chiefly read by the older folk, but the young men reveled in the jokes to be found at the bottom of every page, their only drawback being that one could never tell the stories at a paring-bee or other social gathering, because everyone in the company had read them.
In the Midst of Alarms Robert Barr 1881
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And so the conversation, once started, went on as briskly as possible about the paring-bee, and the spelling-school, and the new singing-master who was coming, and how Jack Thompson had gone to
The Complete Project Gutenberg Writings of Charles Dudley Warner Charles Dudley Warner 1864
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And so the conversation, once started, went on as briskly as possible about the paring-bee, and the spelling-school, and the new singing-master who was coming, and how Jack Thompson had gone to
Being a Boy Charles Dudley Warner 1864
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