Usually means: Semiaquatic rodent, builds dams, herbivorous.
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General (29 matching dictionaries)
  1. Beaver, beaver: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. beaver, beaver, beaver: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. beaver, beaver: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. beaver: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Beaver, beaver: Vocabulary.com
  6. beaver: Wordnik
  7. beaver: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Beaver: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  9. Beaver, beaver: Wiktionary
  10. beaver: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. beaver: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. beaver: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Beaver, beaver: Dictionary.com
  14. beaver: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. beaver: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Beaver (Danezaa), Beaver (band), Beaver (color), Beaver (disambiguation), Beaver (singer), Beaver (steamship), Beaver (surname), Beaver, The Beaver (fable), The Beaver (film), The Beaver (magazine), The Beaver (newspaper): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Beaver: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. beaver: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. beaver: Rhymezone
  20. beaver: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. beaver: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. Beaver, Beaver: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  23. beaver: Free Dictionary
  24. beaver: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  25. beaver: Mnemonic Dictionary
  26. beaver: Dictionary/thesaurus
  27. beaver: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. beaver: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Beaver, beaver: Sound Alike Words
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. beaver: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. BEAVER, BEAVER, BEAVER: Terminology and Descriptions of Geneaological Words
  4. beaver: Idioms

Slang (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. beaver, beaver: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. beaver: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. American-Australian Slang Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. The Beaver: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Beaver: Backgammon

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Textile (No longer online)

(Note: See beavering as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (countable) A semiaquatic rodent of the genus Castor within the family Castoridae, having a wide, flat tail and webbed feet.
noun:  The fur of the beaver.
noun:  (countable) A hat, of various shapes, made from a felted beaver fur (or later of silk), fashionable in Europe between 1550 and 1850.
noun:  (Canada, US) Beaver pelts as an article of exchange or as a standard of value.
noun:  Beaver cloth, a heavy felted woollen cloth, used chiefly for making overcoats.
noun:  A brown colour, like that of a beaver.
noun:  (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.
verb:  To work hard.
verb:  (logging, slang) To cut a continuous ring around a tree that one is felling.
verb:  (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.
noun:  Butter.
verb:  To form a felt-like texture, similar to the way beaver fur is used for felt-making.
noun:  Referring to a beard.
noun:  (countable) A beard or a bearded person.
noun:  (uncountable, historical) A game, in which points are scored by spotting beards.
noun:  (countable) Referring to the genital area or a woman.
noun:  (chiefly Canada, US) The pubic hair near a vulva or a vulva itself; (attributively) denoting films or literature featuring nude women.
noun:  (US, offensive) A woman, especially one who is sexually attractive.
verb:  To spot a beard in a game of beaver.
noun:  (countable) A surname.
noun:  A number of places in the United States:
noun:  A town in Arkansas.
noun:  A city in Iowa.
noun:  A village in Ohio.
noun:  A town, the county seat of Beaver County, Oklahoma.
noun:  A borough, the county seat of Beaver County, Pennsylvania.
noun:  A city, the county seat of Beaver County, Utah.
noun:  A census-designated place in West Virginia.
noun:  A town in Clark County, Wisconsin.
noun:  A town and unincorporated community therein, in Marinette County, Wisconsin.
noun:  A town in Polk County, Wisconsin.
noun:  A number of townships in the United States, listed under Beaver Township.
noun:  A native or resident of the American state of Oregon.
noun:  (originally Canada) 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.
noun:  (dated) The Dane-zaa people, indigenous to northern Alberta and British Columbia, Canada.
noun:  Alternative letter-case form of Beaver (“member of the youngest wing of the Scout movement”). [(countable) A surname.]
noun:  Alternative spelling of bevor (“part of a helmet”). [(historical) A portion of plate armour to protect the lower face and the neck, typically in two parts, called upper bevor and lower bevor.]
noun:  Alternative letter-case form of beaver (“beard-spotting game”). [(countable) A semiaquatic rodent of the genus Castor within the family Castoridae, having a wide, flat tail and webbed feet.]

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