Green’s Dictionary of Slang

hive n.

[as a receptacle for honey n.1 (2b); see Williams for 17C metaphorical uses]

the vagina.

[UK] ‘The Rebells Reign’ in Rump Poems and Songs (1662) i 315: Men were never so spic’d with the Sceptre of Christ / In the hands of a Saint in grain. / ’Twas brewed in their Hives by Citizens wives, / Who ventured their husbands far, / With Robin the fool, there was ne’re such a tool / To lead in the womens War.
[UK]Kentish Gaz. 27 Aug. 2/1: Some officers of the army [...] had unloaded themselves of their honey in some of the hives of love .
[UK]Partridge DSUE (1984) 556: from ca. 1860.
[US]L. Bangs in Psychotic Reactions (1988) 235: I doubt if there are very many gigs where he doesn’t end up pogoing his pronger in some sweet honey’s hive.