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n. (plural of beaver English)
Wikipedia
Beavers in Scouting is one name for the youngest section of Scouting with members younger than Cub Scouts and sometimes going to as young as five years of age. Other names are used in some countries. The programme is based on the concept of co-operating and sharing.
Beavers is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Anthony Beavers (born 1963), American philosopher
- Aubrey Beavers (born 1971), American football player
- Brett Beavers, American songwriter and music producer
- Eric Beavers (born 1964), American football player
- Ethen Beavers, American comic book artist
- Jim Beavers, American songwriter
- Keith Beavers (born 1983), Canadian swimmer
- Larry Beavers (born 1985), American football player
- Mae Beavers (born 1947), American politician
- Paul Beavers (born 1978), English footballer
- Robert Beavers (born 1949), American film director
- Scott Beavers (born 1967), American football player
- William Beavers (born 1935), American politician
Usage examples of "beavers".
Down the rapids of Pauwating, Kwasind sailed with his companions, In the stream he saw a beaver, Saw Ahmeek, the King of Beavers, Struggling with the rushing currents, Rising, sinking in the water.
Like an antelope he bounded, Till he came unto a streamlet In the middle of the forest, To a streamlet still and tranquil, That had overflowed its margin, To a dam made by the beavers, To a pond of quiet water, Where knee-deep the trees were standing, Where the water lilies floated, Where the rushes waved and whispered.
Silently above the surface Rose one head and then another, Till the pond seemed full of beavers, Full of black and shining faces.
The river seemed to have lost most of its vigor by that time, and would submit without complaint to being partially dammed up by a family of beavers or a tangle of pond lilies and driftwood.
No herons waded in the shallows, no beavers or muskrats were busy building nests.
Tom again until noon, and then he came up to the youth lying prone on a bank of grass and peering around a tree trunk to watch beavers busily at work cutting down trees.
The water had been backed into a little gorge, and the beavers were just beginning to levy their toll on the forest.
Then he stood up and clapped his hands, and he laughed silently and heartily as the beavers dived for shelter beneath the water.
They had a good view of the American beavers inside their little enclosure, if nothing else.
And so he went on, throwing iron awls to the women to be used instead of their bone bodkins, iron knives to take the place of pieces of stone in killing beavers and cutting their meat, till he reached his peroration, which was punctuated with handfuls of round beads for the adornment of their children and girls.
When the dam is built the beavers often dig a channel around either end to carry off the surplus water, and so prevent their handiwork being washed away in a freshet.
Then the beavers guard their preserve jealously, driving away the wood folk that dare to cross their dam or enter their ponds, especially the musquash, who is apt to burrow and cause them no end of trouble.
But the moment the beavers hear a splashing there, or note a disturbance in the pond where Keeonekh is chasing fish, down they come full of wrath.
At the foot of a wild little natural meadow, made centuries ago by the beavers, I found the trail of two deer which had been helping themselves to some hay that had been cut and stacked there the previous summer.