English
beaver
see also: Beaver
Pronunciation Noun

beaver (plural beavers)

  1. A semiaquatic rodent of the genus Castor, having a wide, flat tail and webbed feet.
  2. A hat, of various shapes, made from a felted beaver fur (or later of silk), fashionable in Europe between 1550 and 1850.
    • a brown 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...
  3. (coarse, 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.
  4. The fur of the beaver.
  5. Beaver cloth, a heavy felted woollen cloth, used chiefly for making overcoats.
  6. A brown colour, like that of a beaver (also called beaver brown).
     
  7. (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.
Translations Translations Noun

beaver (plural beavers)

  1. Alternative spelling of bevor
    • c. 1590, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 3, Act I, Scene 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 (novel), 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!
Beaver
Proper noun
  1. Surname
  2. A place name.
    1. A town in Arkansas.
    2. A city in Iowa.
    3. A village in Ohio.
    4. A town/county seat in Beaver County, Oklahoma.
    5. A borough/county seat in Beaver County, Pennsylvania.
    6. A city/county seat in Beaver County, Utah.
    7. A census-designated place in West Virginia.
Related terms
  • Beaverton
  • Beavertown
  • Beaver Town
  • Beaver Township
  • Town of Beaver
  • City of Beaver
  • Beaver City
  • Beaverville
Noun

beaver (plural beavers)

  1. A native or resident of the American state of Oregon.
Proper noun
  1. (dated) the Dane-zaa people, indigenous to northern Alberta and British Columbia, Canada


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