I. noun
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
eager beaver
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A prime beaver pelt was worth $ 6 to $ 8 a pound.
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Although retired, Selwyn Hopkins was a regular beaver where gardening was concerned.
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Like the beaver skins, it had never had a function in this domesticated place.
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Luiza and Freddi were there, Luiza muffled up in a huge and unflattering beaver lamb coat that had seen better days.
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The beaver skins that Oliver had sent her from Deadwood were a trouble.
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These meant that a beaver had been here recently.
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This will tend to apply to all the logs placed by any beaver bearing this particular mutation.
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Whatever its benefits, a beaver lake is a conspicuous and characteristic feature of the landscape.
II. verb
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Information can be automatically kept up to date, and will allow individuals to co-operate on projects instead of beavering away in isolation.
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The Doc's patented micro-organisms were beavering away inside, keeping her at the peak of perfection.
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To do the work requires an enormous amount of effort beavering away among old records, checking, copying and encoding.
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You will enjoy beavering away to find out.