bee-hive

• IPA^(key): /ˈbiːhaɪv/

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bee-hive (plural bee-hives)

1. Alternative spelling of beehive.
   • 1884 December 10, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter VIII, in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade) […], London: Chatto & Windus, […], →OCLC, page 69:

     And he said if a man owned a bee-hive, and that man died, the bees must be told about it before sun-up next morning, or else the bees would all weaken down and quit work and die.

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