DCHP-3

paring bee

Hist.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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See 1931 quote.

See: bee

Quotations

1830
. . . a paring "bee," or "be," [is] an assemblage of neighbours invited to one house, to prepare apples for drying.
1846
That night we had a parin' bee. . . .
1931
Another sort of frolic was the "paring frolic," when young men and girls gathered to pare and slice apples, that they might be dried out and kept through the winter.
1933
A paring bee produced large numbers of strings of dried apples, and these were suspended from the ceiling of kitchen or attic.