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feed(ing)-bed
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n. the place near a beaver dam where the beavers anchor the sticks intended to feed the colony during the winter.
See: beaver dam
Quotations
1946
Upon reaching the feed-bed site they would dive with their burden and, by some unknown skill, anchor it securely in the deep water, where it would be easily accessible after freeze-up.
1948
Some of these lengths they use for dams, and others as eating stuff, adding it to their feeding bed for next winter.