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beaver🔊

(rodent) A semiaquatic rodent of the genus (genus) within the family (family), having a wide, flat tail and webbed feet.

The fur of the beaver.

📑 Synonyms: castorette

A hat, of various shapes, made from a felted beaver fur (or later of silk), fashionable in Europe between 1550 and 1850.

📑 Synonyms: castor castoreum q2=archaic

(North American) Beaver pelts as an article of exchange or as a standard of value.

Beaver cloth, a heavy felted woollen cloth, used chiefly for making overcoats.

📑 Synonyms: castor

A brown colour, like that of a beaver.

📑 Synonyms: beaver brown castor

(backgammon) 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.

(member of the youngest wing of the Scout movement) (id=member of the youngest wing of the Scout movement).

(beard or bearded person) (slang) A beard or a bearded person.

📑 Synonyms: beard beardo beardy

(beard-spotting game) (slang) A game, in which points are scored by spotting beards.

(vulva or pubic hair near a vulva) The pubic hair near a vulva or a vulva itself; (attributively) {{n-g|denoting films or literature featuring nude women}}.

📑 Synonyms: beav nest q2=vulgar

(slang) A woman, especially one who is sexually attractive.

To form a felt-like texture, similar to the way beaver fur is used for felt-making.

(to work hard) To work hard.

(slang) To cut a continuous ring around a tree that one is felling.

(backgammon) After being doubled, to immediately double the stakes again, a move that keeps the doubling cube on one’s own side of the board.

(slang) To spot a beard in a game of beaver.

(part of a helmet) (part of a helmet).

Butter.