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beaver | bearer |

As nouns the difference between beaver and bearer

is that beaver is an aquatic rodent of the genus Castor, having a wide, flat tail and webbed feet while bearer is one who, or that which, bears, sustains, or carries.

As a proper noun Beaver

is {{surname|lang=en}.

beaver

English

(wikipedia beaver) (Castor)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) bever, from (etyl) . Related to brown and bear.

Noun

(en-noun)
  • An aquatic rodent of the genus Castor , having a wide, flat tail and webbed feet.
  • A hat, of various shape, made from a felted beaver fur (or later of silk), fashionable in Europe between 1550 and 1850.
  • * (and other bibliographic particulars) (Prescott)
    • a brown beaver slouched over his eyes
  • (coarse, slang) The pubic hair and/or vulva of a woman.
  • The fur of the beaver.
  • Beaver cloth, a heavy felted woollen cloth, used chiefly for making overcoats.
    • Derived terms
    * American beaver * European beaver
    Related terms
    * bank beaver * beaver away * beavered * beaver rat * busy as a beaver * eager beaver
    See also
    *

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The lower face-guard of a helmet.
  • *1600 , (Edward Fairfax), The Jerusalem Delivered of Tasso, XII, lxvii:
  • *:With trembling hands her beaver he untied, / Which done, he saw, and seeing knew her face.
  • *1819 , (Walter Scott), (Ivanhoe) :
  • *:Without alighting from his horse, the conqueror called for a bowl of wine, and opening the beaver , or lower part of his helmet, announced that he quaffed it, “To all true English hearts, and to the confusion of foreign tyrants.”
  • *1974 , (Lawrence Durrell), , Faber & Faber 1992, p.128:
  • *:As each one brings a little of himself to what he sees you brought the trappings of your historic preoccupations, so that Monsieur flattered you by presenting himself with beaver up like Hamlet's father's ghost!

    • Etymology 3

    Alternative forms.

    Noun

    (en noun)

    • References

    (Commons) *

    bearer

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who, or that which, bears, sustains, or carries.
  • * Bible, 2 Chron. ii. 18
    • Bearers of burdens.
  • * Dryden
    • The bearer of unhappy news.
  • Someone who helps carry the coffin or a dead body during a funeral procession; pallbearer.
    • (Milton)
  • One who possesses a cheque, bond, or other notes promising payment.
    • I promise to pay the bearer on demand.
  • (India, dated) A domestic servant or palanquin carrier.
  • * 1888 , Rudyard Kipling, ‘Watches of the Night’, Plain Tales from the Hills , Folio 2005, p. 60:
    • The bar of the watch-guard worked through the buttonhole, and the watch—Platte's watch—slid quietly on to the carpet; where the bearer found it next morning and kept it.
  • A tree or plant yielding fruit.
    • a good bearer
  • (printing) A strip of reglet or other furniture to bear off the impression from a blank page.
  • (printing) A type or type-high piece of metal interspersed in blank parts to support the plate when it is shaved.

    • Anagrams

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