beaver flats

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a meadow, often swampy, lying behind an old beaver dam and prized by early settlers for its fertility.

Quotations

1958

He was a familiar figure, with . . . his battered old car, which he often drove . . . across pastureland and bumpy beaver flats. . . .