beehiver

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English

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Etymology

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From beehive-er.

Noun

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beehiver (plural beehivers)

  1. (dialectal) A keeper of a beehive; beekeeper.
    • 2010, Cormac McCarthy, Outer Dark, page 81:
      The beehiver looked at him sideways and away again. Or do ye not know where it is you're a-goin? I don't know, Holme said. Why are ye goin then? Goin where? The beehiver didn't answer.