The word "beaver" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used as a noun to refer to a semi-aquatic rodent characterized by its webbed feet, flat tail, and orange-brown fur, or as a verb to refer to building or constructing something. Example sentence: The beaver built a dam using sticks and branches.
For there is only one good context in which to be dammed - when building a small island because you are a beaver.
In Canada, you can buy beaver tails, but that's just the name for deep-fried sugared pastries.
Mr Kay claims that aspen in particular have suffered a 95% decline since the park opened in 1872: a serious development because beaver rely on aspen to build their dams, which in turn are vital to keep wetlands going.Park officials say that the elk are only partly to blame.
Cranes and bulldozers beaver away throughout the territory, building new high-rises.
They beaver away on computers, but their desks are piled high with comic books, animated videos and plastic action figures.
And it can beaver away in all weathers, day or night.Harvey has a variety of sensors to avoid obstacles and people and navigate with high precision.
Yet the charity's eager-beaver volunteers are already in action, leading induction courses for new recruits and guided tours around the gardens.
Tibetans who had collaborated in the Chinese takeover and who later fell victim to China's deadly political battles entered the work camps exuding ideological solidarity and eager-beaver enthusiasm, rushing from place to place with their heavy loads of stone.
Hawker knew his readers would care about clothes, recommending, "when too cold for a straw hat, a white radical-beaver, or one of the new felt hats".
The series was created by Iain Hollands, who wrote E4's comedy drama Beaver Falls, and made by Working Title with Bigballs Films in a co-commission by Sky and NBC.
The atheist promise will be available to those aged eight and over; prospective Beaver Scouts, aged six to eight, have only to promise to do their best "to be kind and helpful and to love our world".
