beaver
/ˈbivɚ/ verb C2- To form a felt-like texture, similar to the way beaver fur is used for felt-making.
- To work hard.
- To cut a continuous ring around a tree that one is felling.
- After being doubled, to immediately double the stakes again, a move that keeps the doubling cube on one’s own side of the board.
- To spot a beard in a game of beaver.
He/she/it beavers · Past beavered · Past participle beavered · -ing form beavering
Verb forms
- Base form
- beaver
- He/she/it
- beavers
- Past
- beavered
- Past participle
- beavered
- -ing form
- beavering
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