Beaver vs Bever - What's the difference?
beaver | bever | Alternative forms |
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)
(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.
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!
To tremble; shake; quiver; shiver.
* 1485 , Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte D'Arthur , page 25:
A movable covering for the mouth and chin on a close helmet.
* 1786 , Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons , page 8:
A drink.
A snack or light refreshment between meals.
*, II.2:
*:It seemeth that wee daily shorten the use of this, and that in our houses (as I have seene in mine infancie) breakfasts, nunchions, and beavers should be more frequent and often used than now adayes they are.
*1604 , Christopher Marlowe, Dr. Faustus :
*:Thirty meals a day and ten bevers .
*1980 , Anthony Burgess, Earthly Powers :
*:Very softly I boiled water, made a sandwich from the remains of the luncheon roast chicken, scalded the Twining creature. Then I softly carried my bever to the study on a tray.
Bever is a alternative form of beaver.
As nouns the difference between beaver and bever
is that beaver is an aquatic rodent of the genus Castor, having a wide, flat tail and webbed feet while bever is a movable covering for the mouth and chin on a close helmet.As a proper noun Beaver
is {{surname|lang=en}.As a verb bever is
to tremble; shake; quiver; shiver.beaver
English
(wikipedia beaver) (Castor)Etymology 1
From (etyl) bever, from (etyl) . Related to brown and bear.Noun
(en-noun)- a brown beaver slouched over his eyes
Derived terms
* American beaver * European beaverSee also
*Etymology 2
From (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)Etymology 3
Alternative forms.bever
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Verb
(en verb)- Wherefore King Ban and King Bors made them ready, and dressed their shields and harness, and they were so courageous that many knights shook and bevered for eagerness.
Derived terms
*Etymology 2
From (etyl) .Alternative forms
* beaverNoun
(en noun)- Some close helmets have a farther improvement called a bever', the '''bever''' when closed covers the mouth and chin, and either lifts up by revolving on the same pivots as the visor, or lets down by means of two or more pivots on each side near the jaws, in which case the ' bever consists of several laminæ or plates, one shutting over the other.