honeymaker

Noun

honeymaker (uncountable)

1. (rare, often ludic or poetic when used at all) A maker of honey: a honey bee.
   • A correspondent of the Washington Gazette, who has a very imaginative and fertile brain, tries to explain and account for a foolish story that has been again and again published in the papers all over the country, about bees losing their inclination to store honey, when they are placed in the...1883 January, “Habits of Bees in the South. From the American Bee Journal”, in The New England Apiarian, volume 1, number 1, page 16
   • "I have seen bees so drunk that they could not fly, and in a condition of mental and physical paralysis, due to their copious imbibing, which would have killed one of your Bowery topers with envy. It is a very common thing on a California bee farm to find the transgressing honeymakers staggering...1899 September, “Animal life: stories, studies and sketches”, in Current Literature, volume 26, number 3, page 269