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Beeline vs Beeling - What's the difference?

beeline | beeling |

As nouns the difference between beeline and beeling

is that beeline is a very direct or quick path or trip while beeling is a small, young, or juvenile bee.

As a verb beeline

is to travel in a straight course, ignoring established paths of travel.

beeline

English

Alternative forms

* bee-line

Noun

(en noun)
  • A very direct or quick path or trip.
    • The children made a beeline to the swimming pool.
  • * , Episode 16
    • Discussing these and kindred topics they made a beeline across the back of the Customhouse and passed under the Loop Line bridge where a brazier of coke burning in front of a sentrybox or something like one attracted their rather lagging footsteps.
  • (mining, chiefly, historical) A dynamite fuse made with a small quantity of dynamite powder along its length, so that the spark travels quickly and at a specific known rate.

    • Verb

    (beelin)
  • To travel in a straight course, ignoring established paths of travel.

    • See also

    * as the crow flies

    beeling

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (l)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A small, young, or juvenile bee.
  • *1901 , British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser - Volume 29 - Page 354:
    • The "bee-ling " is now at its best, spotted here and there with large patches of "crow-ling" (Erica cinerca) and smaller patches of the beautiful pink waxlike "wire-ling" (Erica tetralix).
  • *1906 , Harper's magazine - Volume 113 - Page 593:
    • Herein must go an egg and food for the beeling that shall hatch therefrom.
  • *1907 , Henry Christopher McCook, Nature's craftsmen :
    • [...] in which the pollen is gathered and carried to the cells to feed the hungry little larvae or beelings when they are hatched from the egg.