beaver cuttings

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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fallen trees, sticks, chips, and pointed stumps left from the activities of beavers.

Quotations

1770

I named it Watson Pond, and was greatly surprised to find beaver cuttings by the side of it. . . .

1824

Few things are more dangerous . . . than the . . . chaos of logs, uprooted trees and beaver cuttings . . . in such places as this.

1937

In one place beaver cuttings, along a bank of poplars, extend for a quarter of a mile.