beaver dam

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a dam built by beavers to maintain a constant water level above their lodge.

Quotations

1754

The Beaver Dams bear people [because frozen], which favors in killing the Beaver.

1880

. . . much of the country is at present covered by swamps and beaver-dams.

1964

[Motor toboggans] will climb over logs, cross beaver dams . . . climb or descend steep hills with amazing ease.