beaver run

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

<i>c</i>1902

The swampy beaver-runs narrowed . . . and the dark-shadowed waters came leaping down.