Beaver

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A semiaquatic rodent of the genus Castor, having a wide, flat tail and webbed feet, native to the Northern Hemisphere.
2. isim The fur of the beaver.
3. isim A hat, of various shapes, made from a felted beaver fur (or later of silk), fashionable in Europe between 1550 and 1850.

   “a broad beaver slouched over his eyes”

4. isim Beaver pelts as an article of exchange or as a standard of value.
5. isim Beaver cloth, a heavy felted woollen cloth, used chiefly for making overcoats.
6. isim A brown colour, like that of a beaver.
7. isim 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.
8. isim Alternative letter-case form of Beaver (“member of the youngest wing of the Scout movement”).
9. isim A beard or a bearded person.

   “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.”

10. isim A game, in which points are scored by spotting beards.
11. isim The pubic hair near a vulva or a vulva itself; (attributively) denoting films or literature featuring nude women.

    “Finally it came on. It was a beauty, a beaver flick made in the late 1970s. It was called Big Black Leather Splits.”

12. isim A woman, especially one who is sexually attractive.

    ““10-4, Beaver [CB talk for a female], we’re all going down to Plains tomorrow after Jimmy Carter wins.””

13. fiil To form a felt-like texture, similar to the way beaver fur is used for felt-making.

    “Without these attentions the woad will not beaver well, a term descriptive of the fineness of the capillary filaments into which it draws out when broken between the finger and thumb.”

14. fiil To work hard.

    “When A. G. Dickens published his English Reformation in 1964 the archival beavering of a generation of graduate students was given its imprimatur in the claim to understand how the English people felt about religious change—largely, according to Dickens, positively.”

15. fiil To cut a continuous ring around a tree that one is felling.
16. fiil After being doubled, to immediately double the stakes again, a move that keeps the doubling cube on one’s own side of the board.
17. fiil To spot a beard in a game of beaver.

    “Beavering of foreign visitors does not count. This is a rule, but it is never carried out.”

18. isim Alternative spelling of bevor (“part of a helmet”).

    “Lord Stafford’s father, Duke of Buckingham, Is either slain or wounded dangerously; I cleft his beaver with a downright blow:”

19. isim Butter.

    “Butter – Beaver.”

20. özel isim A surname.
21. özel isim A census-designated place in Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area, Alaska.
22. özel isim A town in Carroll County, Arkansas.
23. özel isim A minor city in Amaqua Township, Boone County, Iowa.
24. özel isim A township and census-designated place therein, in Barton County, Kansas.
25. özel isim An unincorporated community in Floyd County, Kentucky.
26. özel isim A township and unincorporated community therein, in Bay County, Michigan.
27. özel isim An unincorporated community in Baldwin Township, Delta County, Michigan.
28. özel isim An unincorporated community in Whitewater Township, Winona County, Minnesota.
29. özel isim A village in Pike County, Ohio.
30. özel isim A town, the county seat of Beaver County, Oklahoma.