name
Meaning 1
A surname.
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Usage: countable
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name
A surname.
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name
A number of places in the United States:
A census-designated place in Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area, Alaska.
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name
A number of places in the United States:
A town in Carroll County, Arkansas.
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name
A number of places in the United States:
A minor city in Amaqua Township, Boone County, Iowa.
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name
A number of places in the United States:
A township and census-designated place therein, in Barton County, Kansas.
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name
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Floyd County, Kentucky.
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name
A number of places in the United States:
A township and unincorporated community therein, in Bay County, Michigan.
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name
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Baldwin Township, Delta County, Michigan.
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name
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Whitewater Township, Winona County, Minnesota.
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name
A number of places in the United States:
A village in Pike County, Ohio.
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name
A number of places in the United States:
A town, the county seat of Beaver County, Oklahoma.
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name
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Tillamook County, Oregon.
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name
A number of places in the United States:
A borough, the county seat of Beaver County, Pennsylvania.
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name
A number of places in the United States:
A city, the county seat of Beaver County, Utah.
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name
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Clallam County, Washington.
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name
A number of places in the United States:
A census-designated place in Raleigh County, West Virginia.
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name
A number of places in the United States:
A town in Clark County, Wisconsin.
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name
A number of places in the United States:
A town and unincorporated community therein, in Marinette County, Wisconsin.
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name
A number of places in the United States:
A town in Polk County, Wisconsin.
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name
A number of places in the United States:
A number of other townships in the United States, listed under Beaver Township.
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name
The Dane-zaa people, indigenous to northern Alberta and British Columbia, Canada.
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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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Usage: countable
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Broader terms: rodent, mammal, vertebrate, animal, organism, gnawer, critter, creature
noun
The fur of the beaver.
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Synonyms: castorette
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Broader terms: fur
noun
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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Synonyms: castor, castoreum
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noun
Beaver pelts as an article of exchange or as a standard of value.
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Usage: Canada, US, countable, uncountable
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noun
Beaver cloth, a heavy felted woollen cloth, used chiefly for making overcoats.
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Synonyms: castor
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noun
A brown colour, like that of a beaver.
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Synonyms: beaver brown, castor
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noun
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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Usage: countable
Topics: backgammon, games
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noun
Alternative letter-case form of Beaver (“member of the youngest wing of the Scout movement”).
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noun
A beard or a bearded person.
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Usage: countable, slang
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Synonyms: beard, beardo, beardy
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noun
A game, in which points are scored by spotting beards.
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Usage: historical, slang, uncountable
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noun
The pubic hair near a vulva or a vulva itself; (attributively) denoting films or literature featuring nude women.
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Usage: Canada, US, countable, slang
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Synonyms: beav, nest
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noun
A woman, especially one who is sexually attractive.
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Usage: US, countable, offensive, slang, uncountable
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noun
Alternative spelling of bevor (“part of a helmet”).
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Usage: alt-of, alternative
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noun
Butter.
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noun
A native or resident of the American state of Oregon.
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noun
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.
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noun
Alternative letter-case form of beaver (“beard-spotting game”).
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verb
To form a felt-like texture, similar to the way beaver fur is used for felt-making.
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verb
To work hard.
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verb
To cut a continuous ring around a tree that one is felling.
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Usage: slang
Qualifier: logging
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verb
After being doubled, to immediately double the stakes again, a move that keeps the doubling cube on one’s own side of the board.
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Topics: backgammon, games
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verb
To spot a beard in a game of beaver.
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noun
large semiaquatic rodent with webbed hind feet and a broad flat tail; construct complex dams and underwater lodges
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Broader terms: rodent, gnawer
Narrower terms: Old World beaver, Castor fiber, New World beaver, Castor canadensis
noun
a hat made with the fur of a beaver (or similar material)
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Synonyms: castor
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Broader terms: fur hat
noun
a movable piece of armor on a medieval helmet used to protect the lower face
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Broader terms: armor plate, armour plate, armor plating, plate armor, plate armour
noun
a man's hat with a tall crown; usually covered with silk or with beaver fur
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: dress hat, high hat, opera hat, silk hat, stovepipe, top hat, topper
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Broader terms: hat, chapeau, lid, man's clothing
noun
a full beard
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Broader terms: beard, face fungus, whiskers
noun
a native or resident of Oregon
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Synonyms: Oregonian
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Broader terms: American
noun
the soft brown fur of the beaver
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Synonyms: beaver fur
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Broader terms: fur, pelt
verb
work hard on something
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Synonyms: beaver away
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Broader terms: work
History
* As an English surname, capitalization of beaver. This sense is also translated from several Native American names such as Cheyenne homa'e and Creek Echaswvlke of the same meaning. Doublet of Bieber and Bever. * Also as an English surname, from the placename Belvoir in Leicestershire.
Calque of Canadian French Castor. From French castor (“beaver”).
From Middle English bever, from Old English befer, from Proto-West Germanic *bebru, from Proto-Germanic *bebruz, from Proto-Indo-European *bhébhrus (“beaver”). Cognate with West Frisian bever, Dutch bever, French bièvre, German Biber, dialectal Swedish bjur. Non-Germanic cognates include Welsh befer, Latin fiber, Lithuanian bẽbras, Russian бобр (bobr), Avestan 𐬠𐬀𐬎𐬎𐬭𐬀 (bauura), and Sanskrit बभ्रु (bábhru, “mongoose; ichneumon”). Slang use to refer to a woman evolved from use to refer to pubic hair, which evolved from use to refer to beards, which evolved from use to refer to the furry animal or its fur.
See bevor.
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