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Definition of Hive up

1. Verb. Save up as for future use. "They hive up the money in the closet"

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hive Up

Literary usage of Hive up

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Sermons Preached at Trinity Chapel, Brighton by Frederick William Robertson (1869)
"But the spectacle of an Apostle Paul crossing oceans, not to conquer kingdoms, nor to hive up knowledge, but to impart life,— not to accumulate stores for ..."

2. Sermons Preached at Brighton by Frederick William Robertson (1899)
"Men before that had travelled into foreign countries: the naturalist to collect specimens; the historian to accumulate facts; the philosopher to hive up ..."

3. Friends Intelligencer by Friends Intelligencer Association (1868)
"But the spectacle of an Apostle Paul crossing oceans, not to conquer kingdoms, nor to hive up knowledge, but to impart life,—not to accumulate stores for ..."

4. Sermons Preached Before the University of Oxford and on Various Occasions by James Bowling Mozley (1906)
"But the spectacle of an Apostle Paul crossing oceans not to conquer kingdoms, not to hive up knowledge, but to impart life: not to accumulate stores for ..."

5. Annual Register (1764)
"Having then turned the hive up- fide down, I found the queen lying dead, in appearance, upon the ground, and fome of the others which had fallen upon the ..."

6. Journal of Horticulture, Cottage Gardener and Country Gentlemen (1877)
"I then turned the hive up and placed it on the stand where the old hive stood before, and they took to the new hive well, and the next day they started on ..."

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