Meaning of “beekeeper” in the English Dictionary

Examples from literature

• During the last fifteen years men with new methods of management and modern equipment have been rapidly superseding the picturesque old beekeepers. 
• If not already done the beekeeper should at once make his final preparations towards a successful wintering of bees. 
• The old fashioned beekeeper with his hybrid bees, kept in immovable hives, logs or boxes, did not derive much profit from his bees. 
• The practical beekeeper must decide at the beginning of the honey season whether he wishes to produce extracted honey, comb honey or merely to increase the number of his colonies. 
• The price of queens will be fifty cents for one, and not more than three will be furnished to each beekeeper.