skep /ˈskɛp/noun 2verb 1forms 3 noun2 •A basket.Old women crouched over bags of Siamese rice, skeps of red and green peppers, purple egg-plants, bristly rambutans, pineapples, durians. — 1956 •A beehive made of straw or wicker.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. — 1977 verb1 •To transfer (bees) into a skep. formsskepped · skepping · skeps
