Definition of "beaver" in 英语

noun

1. (countable) A semiaquatic rodent of the genus Castor, having a wide, flat tail and webbed feet, native to the Northern Hemisphere.

2. The fur of the beaver.

3. (countable) A hat, of various shapes, made from a felted beaver fur (or later of silk), fashionable in Europe between 1550 and 1850.

4. (Canada, US) Beaver pelts as an article of exchange or as a standard of value.

5. Beaver cloth, a heavy felted woollen cloth, used chiefly for making overcoats.

6. A brown colour, like that of a beaver.

7. (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.

8. Alternative letter-case form of Beaver (“member of the youngest wing of the Scout movement”).

9. (countable, slang) A beard or a bearded person.

10. (uncountable, historical, slang) A game, in which points are scored by spotting beards.

11. (chiefly Canada, US, slang, countable) The pubic hair near a vulva or a vulva itself; (attributively) denoting films or literature featuring nude women.

12. (US, offensive, slang) A woman, especially one who is sexually attractive.

verb

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

2. To work hard.

3. (logging, slang) To cut a continuous ring around a tree that one is felling.

4. (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.

5. (slang) To spot a beard in a game of beaver.

noun

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

   • 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.