DCHP-3

beaver dog

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a dog specially trained to hunt beaver.

Quotations

1907
This is handled (generally at the lake) with a peeled spruce sapling from six to seven feet long, and last but by no means least, is a good beaver dog, and almost any Indian dog is good for beaver, as they learn from the older ones and train themselves.
1948
. . . if the [bank] burrow is used much in winter, its location is very quickly picked up by the Indian with the help of his "beaver dog."