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  • noun US, dialectal A woodchuck.

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Examples

  • "But there is another sort of beaver, ma'am, called the land-beaver, which is more easily taken," observed Martin; "they make holes in the earth like rabbits.

    The Settlers in Canada Frederick Marryat 1820

  • "But there is another sort of beaver, ma'am, called the land-beaver, which is more easily taken," observed Martin; "they make holes in the earth like rabbits.

    The Settlers in Canada Frederick Marryat 1820

  • The reft, which confifled of ic8o heaver tails,] fundry pieces of beaver (kin» and cloaks, 110 fur fcal (kins, about 150 land-beaver, 60 fine cloaks nf the earlefs marmor,

    The Monthly Review 1789

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  • How much land would a land-beaver beaver if a land-beaver could beaver land?

    August 10, 2021

  • Surely the verb is 'to beave'.

    August 10, 2021

  • I b'eave you're correct.

    August 11, 2021