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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
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.
See: beaver lodge
Quotations
1760
These cabbins are generally capable of lodging eight or ten beavers. . . .
1823
Each cabin has its own magazine, proportioned by the number of its inhabitants, who have all common right to the store, and never pillage their neighbours.
1915
Beaver were made the object of the most careful "farming," the numbers of occupants, old and young, to each "cabin" being kept count of.