Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: beaver
IPA transcription: [b'ivɚ]
verb meaning of the word
  • 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.