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Skep vs Shep - What's the difference?

skep | shep |

As nouns the difference between skep and shep

is that skep is a basket while shep is eye dialect of lang=en.

skep

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • a basket
  • a beehive made of straw or wicker
  • :* 1977': He prised a '''skep from its stool and held it out, inverted, showing the dirty wreck of combs, with the vile grubs spinning their cocoons. — Patrick O'Brian, ''The Mauritius Command

    • Derived terms

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    shep

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • *{{quote-book, year=1897, author=Joseph Hocking, title=The Birthright, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Git on board a shep there, an' go off to some furrin country and make a fortin." }}
  • (Lancashire) starling