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beaver stone
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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one of the two small sacs in a bear's groin from which castoreum is obtained.
See: castoreum
Quotations
1696
To day the governor took from Andrew Johnson all his beaver reason he traded some of it with an indian called whiskers. Likewise some small matter of Beaver stones that is about 6 Beaver and as many stones.
1743
Beaver Stone or castorum.