bee
/ˈbiː/ noun C2- Any of the pieces of hard wood bolted to the sides of the bowsprit, to reeve the fore-topmast stays through.
Plural bees
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Morrel’s daughter, and had remained with him in spite of the efforts of his friends to induce him to withdraw; the other was an old one-eyed cashier, called “Cocles,” or “Cock-eye,” a nickname given him by the young men who used to throng this vast now almost deserted bee-hive, and which had so completely replaced his real name that he would not, in all probability, have replied to anyone who addressed him by it.
that you have a wee bit of a bee in your bonnet over this professor.
High o'erhead the Bumble Bee
As to the Admiralty—it is buzzing like an overturned bee-hive.
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