dial. The hole forming the entrance to a bee-hive.
1669. Worlidge, Syst. Agric., ix. § 3. 160. At the bottom of your little [bee-hive] doors … make an open square place just against the Tee-hole.
1744–50. W. Ellis, Mod. Husbandm., III. xxiii. 110. Some make a few Holes in a little Piece of Horn, and put it before the Tee-hole that the Bees may have Air.
1891. Doyle, White Comp., vi. I. 110. As thick as bees at a tee-hole.
