beaver house

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a domed structure of mud, sticks, stones, etc. built as a rule in a beaver pond behind the dam and used as a den by a family of beavers.

Quotations

1691

In these woods there is abundance of small ponds of water of which there is hardly one Escapes without a Beavour house....

1965

Emile Paquette puts a bait of stripped poplar wood near a beaver house . . . and sets his trap in the water below it.