skeps

[skep]

skep

[skep]
noun
1.
a round farm basket of wicker or wood.
2.
Also, skepful. the amount contained in a skep.
3.
a beehive, especially of straw.

Origin:
before 1100; Middle English skeppe, late Old English sceppe < Old Norse skeppa half-bushel; akin to German Scheffel
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Skeps is always a great word to know.
So is slumgullion. Does it mean:
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
a stew of meat, vegetables, potatoes, etc.
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