DCHP-3

old bachelor

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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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1763, 1901
There are beavers, called, by the Indians, old bachelors, who live by themselves, build no houses, and work at no dams, but shelter themselves in holes.
1829
. . . the beavers leave their dams, and betake themselves to the banks of solitary rivers, and live, as the Indians report, old bachelors.