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vb. (present participle of beaver away English)
Usage examples of "beavering away".
No luck yet on finding Kaia's place in Sunkist-by-the-Sea, but James is beavering away at it.
Aldiough he was reluctant to say so, Hal was presumably still beavering away at die brainfeed link-which could easily extend from King, Urashima, and Rappaccini to Kwiatek, but not to Czasdta.
All beavering away quite happily and writing letters home saying, come on, it's great here they don't eat you alive for a dollar.
All beavering away quite happily and writing letters home saying, come on, it's great here -they don't eat you alive for a dollar.
Although he was reluctant to say so, Hal was presumably still beavering away at the brainfeed link—.
Some of it comes from start-ups and scams, some of it's generated by programs called spambots, which got loose in the system about fifty years ago and which have been beavering away ever since.
We were whisked down a corridor past some very upscale officeswith an upscale executive beavering away in every one, so far as I could see and to double doors at the end of the hall.
Lots of old valve-radio parts, whirring cogs and clicking mechanisms, all beavering away at the ionization of beta particles, thus creating a positronic catalyst, which bombarded an isotope with gamma radiation, giving rise to galvanic variations and the transperambulation of pseudo-cosmic anti-matter.
It's the 'Braxian element in McDonald that's driving her on in the hope of uncovering some sensational story that's going to catapult her into the big-time, and it's beavering away inside us, sapping our moral courage and reinforcing our instincts for self-preservation.
He'd been beavering away thinking he's gotten himself into the big game, only to discover that there was an even bigger game going on!
But they'd lost no time: already they had a mayor and corporation, and a Grand Central Hotel, and a bath-house and stores and theatres and saloons and gaming-houses and dance-halls, with clerks and barbers and harlots and shopmen and traders and drink enough to float a ship, and everyone beavering away like billy-o and doing a roaring trade.