Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | English word BEAVER

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Definitions of BEAVER

1. The fur of the beaver.
2. Beaver cloth, a heavy felted woollen cloth, used chiefly for making overcoats.
3. A native or resident of the American state of Oregon.
4. A brown colour, like that of a beaver.
5. To work hard.
6. Butter.
7. To form a felt-like texture, similar to the way beaver fur is used for felt-making.
8. Alternative letter-case form of Beaver ("member of the youngest wing of the Scout movement")..
9. Alternative spelling of bevor ("part of a helmet")..
10. (countable) A semiaquatic rodent of the genus Castor, having a wide, flat tail and webbed feet.
11. (countable) A hat, of various shapes, made from a felted beaver fur (or later of silk), fashionable in Europe between 1550 and 1850.
12. (North American) Beaver pelts as an article of exchange or as a standard of value.
13. (countable, 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.
14. (logging, slang) To cut a continuous ring around a tree that one is felling.
15. (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.
16. (countable) A surname.
17. (originally, Canadian) 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.
18. (dated) The Dane-zaa people, indigenous to northern Alberta and British Columbia, Canada.
19. Alternative letter-case form of beaver ("beard-spotting game")..
20. (countable, slang) A beard or a bearded person.
21. (uncountable, historical, slang) A game, in which points are scored by spotting beards.
22. (chiefly, North American, slang, countable) The pubic hair near a vulva or a vulva itself; (attributively) denoting films or literature featuring nude women.
23. (US, offensive, slang) A woman, especially one who is sexually attractive.
24. (slang) To spot a beard in a game of beaver.
25. A number of places in USA:

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Examples of Using BEAVER in a Sentence

• The earliest known fossilized squirrels date from the Eocene epoch, and among other living rodent families, the squirrels are most closely related to the mountain beaver and dormice.
• According to Oregon Geographic Names, Beaverton's name is derived from the settlement's proximity to a large body of water resulting from beaver dams.
• In most of Canada, the term is synonymous with the fur trade, since fur for making beaver hats was by far the most valuable product of the trade, from the European point of view.
• Between 1810 and 1840, the region attracted fur trading companies that vied for control of the lucrative beaver pelt trade.
• Previously part of the Mexican Territory of Alta California, the Clark County lands were subsequently traversed by American beaver trappers.
• thumbIn theoretical computer science, the busy beaver game aims at finding a terminating program of a given size that (depending on definition) either produces the most output possible, or runs for the longest number of steps.
• The same word denotes beaver in Slavic Languages (*bebrus in Proto-Balto-Slavic, bober in Slovenian, bobar in Bulgarian, bobr in Russian).
• The ICON (also the CEMCorp ICON, Burroughs ICON, and Unisys ICON, and nicknamed the bionic beaver) was a networked personal computer built specifically for use in schools, to fill a standard created by the Ontario Ministry of Education.
• Buildings, aircraft, skeletons, anthills, beaver dams, bridges and salt domes are all examples of load-bearing structures.

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