ETYMOLOGY
of uncertain origin
EXAMPLE
“…The Waspes neast is begun by one great Waspe, which you may therefore call the Mother-waspes, the which in Cancer (or in hot and dry springs somewhat rather) within some hole, vsually made in the ground by a Moale, Mouse, or other meanes, worketh a comb of the vtter drix of pales or other timber, in forme of a round tent hanging by the top to the ouer-part of the hole.…”
From: The Feminine Monarchie,
Or the Historie of Bees
By Charles Butler, 1623
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