hiver

noun

hiver

noun

Etymology From hive + -er.

1

One who collects bees into a hive.

The hiver must have his face and hands defended, as above-mentioned, and accompanied by a person holding a chafing-dish, with a coal fire, covered with moist peat, to make the greater smoke […]1820, A. B. Herbert, A. P. Beresford, Alexander Dedekind, Of Bees, page 516:

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