Meaning of Beaver | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A semiaquatic rodent of the genus Castor, having a wide, flat tail and webbed feet, native to the Northern Hemisphere.
   countable
2. Alternative spelling of bevor (“part of a helmet”).
   alt-of, alternative
3. Butter.
4. A surname.
   countable
5. A native or resident of the American state of Oregon.
6. The Dane-zaa people, indigenous to northern Alberta and British Columbia, Canada.
   dated
7. Alternative letter-case form of beaver (“beard-spotting game”).
   alt-of
8. The fur of the beaver.
   countable, uncountable
9. A number of places in the United States:
   countable, uncountable
10. A census-designated place in Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area, Alaska.
    countable, uncountable
11. A member of the youngest wing of the Scout movement, composed of groups for children, traditionally boys, of approximately five to seven years of age.
12. A hat, of various shapes, made from a felted beaver fur (or later of silk), fashionable in Europe between 1550 and 1850.
    countable
13. A town in Carroll County, Arkansas.
    countable, uncountable
14. Beaver pelts as an article of exchange or as a standard of value.
    Canada, US, countable, uncountable
15. A minor city in Amaqua Township, Boone County, Iowa.
    countable, uncountable
16. Beaver cloth, a heavy felted woollen cloth, used chiefly for making overcoats.
    countable, uncountable
17. A township and census-designated place therein, in Barton County, Kansas.
    countable, uncountable
18. A brown colour, like that of a beaver.
    countable, uncountable
19. An unincorporated community in Floyd County, Kentucky.
    countable, uncountable
20. 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.
    countable
21. A township and unincorporated community therein, in Bay County, Michigan.
    countable, uncountable
22. Alternative letter-case form of Beaver (“member of the youngest wing of the Scout movement”).
    alt-of, countable, uncountable
23. An unincorporated community in Baldwin Township, Delta County, Michigan.
    countable, uncountable
24. A beard or a bearded person.
    countable, slang
25. An unincorporated community in Whitewater Township, Winona County, Minnesota.
    countable, uncountable
26. A game, in which points are scored by spotting beards.
    historical, slang, uncountable
27. A village in Pike County, Ohio.
    countable, uncountable
28. The pubic hair near a vulva or a vulva itself; (attributively) denoting films or literature featuring nude women.
    Canada, US, countable, slang
29. A town, the county seat of Beaver County, Oklahoma.
    countable, uncountable
30. A woman, especially one who is sexually attractive.
    US, countable, offensive, slang, uncountable
31. An unincorporated community in Tillamook County, Oregon.
    countable, uncountable
32. A borough, the county seat of Beaver County, Pennsylvania.
    countable, uncountable
33. A city, the county seat of Beaver County, Utah.
    countable, uncountable
34. An unincorporated community in Clallam County, Washington.
    countable, uncountable
35. A census-designated place in Raleigh County, West Virginia.
    countable, uncountable
36. A town in Clark County, Wisconsin.
    countable, uncountable
37. A town and unincorporated community therein, in Marinette County, Wisconsin.
    countable, uncountable
38. A town in Polk County, Wisconsin.
    countable, uncountable
39. A number of other townships in the United States, listed under Beaver Township.
    countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

“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...”

“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.”

“Finally it came on. It was a beauty, a beaver flick made in the late 1970s. It was called Big Black Leather Splits.”

“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.”

“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.”

““10-4, Beaver [CB talk for a female], we’re all going down to Plains tomorrow after Jimmy Carter wins.””

“Lord Stafford’s father, Duke of Buckingham, Is either slain or wounded dangerously; I cleft his beaver with a downright blow:”

“With trembling hands her beaver he untied, / Which done, he saw, and seeing knew her face.”

“Without alighting from his horse, the conqueror called for a bowl of wine, and opening the beaver, or lower part of his helmet, announced that he quaffed it, “To all true English hearts, and to the confusion of foreign tyrants.””

“1951 Adaptation of the 1885 Ormsby translation of Cervantes’ Don Quixote, correcting Ormsby as to the portion of the helmet referred to by Cervantes (see note 11 to chapter II) at the suggestion of Juan Hartzenbusch, a 19th-century director of the National Library of Spain. They laid a table for him at the door of the inn for the sake of the air, and the host brought him a portion of ill-soaked and worse cooked stockfish, and a piece of bread as black and mouldy as his own armour; but a laughble sight it was to see him eating, for having his helmet on and the beaver up, he could not with his own hands put anything into his mouth unless some one else placed it there, and this service one of the ladies rendered him.”

“As each one brings a little of himself to what he sees you brought the trappings of your historic preoccupations, so that Monsieur flattered you by presenting himself with beaver up like Hamlet's father's ghost!”

“Butter – Beaver.”

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