byke
Britishnoun
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Then the next moment, just like thrusting a stick into a wasp's byke, each of the black kneeling figures had snatched her candle and made after us.
From Deep Moat Grange by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
But in time he was convinced of the wisdom of not "making two blazes of the same wasps' byke," as he expressed it.
From The Suprising Adventures of Sir Toady Lion With Those of General Napoleon Smith by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
"Sic a bee's byke o' rooms!" said Malcolm, making a halt "Wha sleeps here?"
From Malcolm by George MacDonald
Sae merrily the banes we’ll byke, And sun oursells about the dyke, And at our leisure, when ye like, We’ll whistle owre the lave o’t.
From The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham by Robert Burns
Eh, my leddy!" he cried, after staring for a while in breathless bewilderment, "it's jist like a byke o' frozen bees!
From Malcolm by George MacDonald
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