Woodchuck vs Bever - What's the difference?
woodchuck | bever |
A rodent of the family Sciuridae, belonging to the group of large ground squirrels known as marmots, .
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.
As nouns the difference between woodchuck and bever
is that woodchuck is a rodent of the family sciuridae, belonging to the group of large ground squirrels known as marmots, while bever is a movable covering for the mouth and chin on a close helmet or bever can be a drink.As a verb bever is
to tremble; shake; quiver; shiver or bever can be (obsolete) to take a light repast between meals.woodchuck
English
(wikipedia woodchuck)Noun
(en noun)- How much wood would a woodchuck''' chuck if a '''woodchuck could chuck wood? — popular tongue-twister.
Synonyms
* (rodent of the family Sciuridae) groundhog, whistle-pig, land-beaver, moonackbever
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.