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beaver prairie
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Entry from the 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.
See: beaver meadow
Quotations
1937
Then the farmer calls the corner of his field in which this [a gnawed stick] is found a "beaver prairie", and is happy, knowing that the rich silt dropped there in the still waters. . . .