beaver
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- n the soft brown fur of the beaver
- n a native or resident of Oregon
- n a full beard
- n a man's hat with a tall crown; usually covered with silk or with beaver fur
- n a movable piece of armor on a medieval helmet used to protect the lower face
- n a hat made with the fur of a beaver (or similar material)
- n large semiaquatic rodent with webbed hind feet and a broad flat tail; construct complex dams and underwater lodges
- v work hard on something
- Last March, when 94 beavers imported into beaverless Pennsylvania had become a timber-destroying, field-flooding horde of 15,000, the State opened its first beaver trapping .
- The beaver pelt, once the currency of a frontier, has had a treacherous history.
- The progress last week of Candidate Hoover, busy beaver-man of the present Administration, towards theRepublican nomination, was as follows: Ohio held a primary and.