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n. (plural of beaver dam English)
Usage examples of "beaver dams".
The merciless torrent tore the beaver dams into splinters', and the rivers swelled, changed course, flooded across the plains.
The pools they make back of their beaver dams help to control floodwaters and keep the water where it's needed, right on the land.
In the first settled portions of the United States, too, it is not improbable that the oldest structures of which any traces now remain are the beaver dams.
The river is much divided, and on all the small streams innumerable quantities of beaver dams, though the river is yet navigable for canoes.
Sheer slopes patterned by gnarled roots and deadfalls gave place to lightly timbered glades, crisscrossed with game tracks, and at one point we ploughed through almost half a mile of beaver dams.
The pools they make back of their beaver dams help to control floodwaters and keep the water where it'.
Bandits, he thought then, and his heartbeat quickened at the notion of finally finding a mission for which he believed himself worthy, one that seemed a hundred steps removed from guiding hunters or blasting beaver dams.
Gone the reward of two hard winters of exposure---chopping through thick ice on beaver dams, reaching down arm's length into the icy water to set his traps.
They were flowing and eddying away and building tiny beaver dams against every rock on the ground.