单词 | beaver-dam |
释义 | > as lemmasbeaver-dam beaver-dam n. a dam made by beavers. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > lake > pool > [noun] > artificially confined water > contrivance for impounding water > dam > dam made by beavers beaver-dam1638 stint1792 stick dam1868 1638 in Amer. Speech (1940) 14 155/1 Upon the branches of a swamp runing North west up into the woods from the head of the said Vlyes Creeke out of a Bever dam. 1664 Plymouth Rec. 75 A small brooke..called the beaver dam brooke. 1676 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 11 626 The Bevers..gnaw down trees, wherewith they make..Bever-damms. 1703 in Cal. Virginia State Papers I. 83 To three white oakes, by the East side of the Tuckahoe Bever Dam. 1849 F. Parkman Oregon Trail 293 The stream was clogged with old beaver-dams. 1878 J. H. Beadle Western Wilds xii. 188 It was the good old time..when beaver dams adorned every stream in the mountains. 1903 S. E. White Forest xvi. 231 He knows the beaver-dams, how many animals each harbors. 1931 W. Cather Shadows on Rock (1932) ii. i. 46 A group of little boys played just below, building ‘beaver-dams’ in the gutter to catch the overflow. 1968 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 3 Feb. 43/2 (advt.) Large trout stream 15 acres flooded by beaver dam. < as lemmas |
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