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/ˈbiːvə/
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/ˈbivɚ/
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- General-American
Noun
A semiaquatic rodent of the genus Castor, having a wide, flat tail and webbed feet, native to the Northern Hemisphere.
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Then, for the safeguard of his personage, He did appoint a warlike equipage Of foreign beasts, not in the forest bred, But part by land and part by water fed; For tyranny is with strange aid supported. Then unto him all monstrous beasts resorted Bred of two kinds, as Griffons, Minotaurs, Crocodiles, Dragons, Beavers, and Centaurs: With those himself he strengthened mightily, That fear he need no force of enemy.
The fur of the beaver.
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A hat, of various shapes, made from a felted beaver fur (or later of silk), fashionable in Europe between 1550 and 1850.
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a broad beaver slouched over his eyes
The woman's hair and woman's beaver had both been jerked off, exposing the cropped head of a man...
Beaver pelts as an article of exchange or as a standard of value.
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Beaver cloth, a heavy felted woollen cloth, used chiefly for making overcoats.
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A brown colour, like that of a beaver.
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- beaver browncastor
A move in response to being doubled, in which one immediately doubles the stakes again, keeping the doubling cube on one’s own side of the board.
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A beard or a bearded person.
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The beards were false ones. I could see the elastic going over their ears. In other words, I had fallen among a band of criminals who were not wilful beavers, but had merely assumed the fungus for purposes of disguise.
A game, in which points are scored by spotting beards.
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The pubic hair near a vulva or a vulva itself; (attributively) denoting films or literature featuring nude women.
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Finally it came on. It was a beauty, a beaver flick made in the late 1970s. It was called Big Black Leather Splits.
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Between you and me, uh, she might have been fifteen, but when you get that little red beaver right up there in front of you, I don’t think it's crazy at all and I don’t think you do either.
Let’s get some of that Saturday night beaver.
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The store sold beaver books, fuck-suck books, homo books, novels, films, slides, playing cards, dildoes, cock rings, S&M gear, and French ticklers.
[…] once she wore none at all, swears to this day that he saw her beaver that fateful Friday night.
A woman, especially one who is sexually attractive.
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“10-4, Beaver [CB talk for a female], we’re all going down to Plains tomorrow after Jimmy Carter wins.”
Verb
To form a felt-like texture, similar to the way beaver fur is used for felt-making.
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Without these attentions the woad will not beaver well, a term descriptive of the fineness of the capillary filaments into which it draws out when broken between the finger and thumb.
To work hard.
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When A. G. Dickens published his English Reformation in 1964 the archival beavering of a generation of graduate students was given its imprimatur in the claim to understand how the English people felt about religious change—largely, according to Dickens, positively.
To cut a continuous ring around a tree that one is felling.
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After being doubled, to immediately double the stakes again, a move that keeps the doubling cube on one’s own side of the board.
To spot a beard in a game of beaver.
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Beavering of foreign visitors does not count. This is a rule, but it is never carried out.
Noun
Butter.
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Butter – Beaver.
Noun
the soft brown fur of the beaver
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a full beard
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a man's hat with a tall crown; usually covered with silk or with beaver fur
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a movable piece of armor on a medieval helmet used to protect the lower face
a hat made with the fur of a beaver (or similar material)
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large semiaquatic rodent with webbed hind feet and a broad flat tail; construct complex dams and underwater lodges
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work hard on something
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