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beaver
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?bi?v?/
- (General American) enPR: b??v?r, IPA(key): /?biv?/
- Rhymes: -i?v?(?)
- Homophones: Belvoir, bever, bevor
Etymology 1
From Middle English bever, from Old English beofor (“beaver”), from Proto-Germanic *bebruz (“beaver”) (compare West Frisian bever, Dutch bever, French bièvre, German Biber, dialectal Swedish bjur), from Proto-Indo-European *b?éb?rus (“beaver”) (compare Welsh befer, Latin fiber, Lithuanian b?bras, Russian ???? (bobr), Avestan ????????????????????????? (bauura), ????????????????????????? (bauuri), Sanskrit ????? (bábhru, “mongoose; ichneumon”)), from Proto-Indo-European *b?erH- (“brown”). Related to brown and bear.
Noun
beaver (plural beavers or beaver)
- A semiaquatic rodent of the genus Castor, having a wide, flat tail and webbed feet.
- A hat, of various shapes, made from a felted beaver fur (or later of silk), fashionable in Europe between 1550 and 1850.
- 1856-1858, William H. Prescott, History of the Reign of Philip II
- a broad beaver slouched over his eyes
- 1896: For the White Rose of Arno by Owen Rhoscomyl
- The woman's hair and woman's beaver had both been jerked off, exposing the cropped head of a man...
- 1856-1858, William H. Prescott, History of the Reign of Philip II
- (vulgar, slang) The pubic hair and/or vulva of a woman.
- 2010 Dennis McFadden, Hart's Grove: Stories
- […] once she wore none at all, swears to this day that he saw her beaver that fateful Friday night.
- 2010 Dennis McFadden, Hart's Grove: Stories
- The fur of the beaver.
- Beaver cloth, a heavy felted woollen cloth, used chiefly for making overcoats.
- A brown colour, like that of a beaver (also called beaver brown).
- (slang) A man who wears a beard.
- 1936 P.G. Wodehouse, Laughing Gas:
- 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.
- 1936 P.G. Wodehouse, Laughing Gas:
Synonyms
- (hat): castor, castoreum (archaic)
- (fur): castorette
- (cloth): castor
Derived terms
Translations
See also
- Appendix:Animals
Etymology 2
See bevor.
Noun
beaver (plural beavers)
- Alternative spelling of bevor (“part of a helmet”)
- c. 1590, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 3, Act I, Scene 1,[1]
- Lord Stafford’s father, Duke of Buckingham,
- Is either slain or wounded dangerously;
- I cleft his beaver with a downright blow:
- 1600, Edward Fairfax, The Jerusalem Delivered of Tasso, XII, lxvii:
- With trembling hands her beaver he untied, / Which done, he saw, and seeing knew her face.
- 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.
- 1974, Lawrence Durrell, Monsieur, or the Prince of Darkness, Faber & Faber 1992, p.128:
- 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!
- c. 1590, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 3, Act I, Scene 1,[1]
Further reading
- beaver on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Castor on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
- beaver on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
- The Manual of Heraldry, Fifth Edition, by Anonymous, London, 1862, online at [2]
References
beaver From the web:
- what beavers eat
- what beavers do
- what beavers build
- what beavers look like
- what beaver taste like
- what beaver means
- what beavers need to survive
- what beaver nuggets
wales
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: w?lz, IPA(key): /we?lz/
- Rhymes: -e?lz
- Homophones: wails, whales (in accents with wine-whine merger)
Noun
wales
- plural of wale
Verb
wales
- Third-person singular simple present indicative form of wale
Anagrams
- Swale, alews, lawes, swale, sweal, weals
Finnish
Etymology
< Wales
Noun
wales
- Welsh (language)
Declension
Synonyms
- kymri
- walesin kieli
Middle English
Noun
wales
- plural of wale (“planking, welt”)
Scots
Noun
wales
- plural of wale
Verb
wales
- third-person singular simple present indicative form of wale
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- what wakes you up
- what whales eat
- what whales have teeth
- what whales are endangered
- what whales are extinct
- what whales are in hawaii
- what whales eat krill
- what whales are in alaska
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