Synonyms:
beaver, beaver_away
Meaning: work hard on something
Usage examples
THE BEAVER'S LESSON
The cunning beaver may be caught."
The business of trapping for beaver is no child's play.
The amount of beaver thus brought in amounted to two thousand pounds.
First came the fur-trader, seeking adventure through these passes, pursuing the little beaver.
As was suspected, the two deserters had gone to the camp where the beaver fur was concealed and buried.
Kit Carson, with three companions, proposed a visit to a fork of a river close by, to look for signs of beaver.
The two Indians who had fired at me, and had killed my horse, were retreating across the creek on a beaver dam.
Yet still, ever after that sorrowful day, Whenever the Butcher was by, The Beaver kept looking the opposite way, And appeared unaccountably shy.
The Beaver had counted with scrupulous care, Attending to every word: But it fairly lost heart, and outgrabe in despair, When the third repetition occurred.