beaver pond

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a small body of water formed by the back-up from a beaver dam, usually shallow and swampy away from the dam itself.

Quotations

1792

I came to part of the afore said Beaver Pond, low wet land, not the least frozen, which obliged me to discontinue that line.

1962

Then I'd take an axe to the beaver ponds in the creek by the meadow to open up the water holes. . . .