What is the difference between helmet and beaver?
helmet | beaver |
A protective head covering.
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
, title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=2 That which resembles a helmet in form, position, etc.
# The upper part of a chemist's retort.
# The hood-shaped upper sepal or petal of some flowers, as of the monkshood or the snapdragon.
# A naked shield or protuberance on the top or fore part of the head of a bird.
# (heraldry) The feature above a shield on a coat of arms.
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!
As nouns the difference between helmet and beaver
is that helmet is a protective head covering while beaver is an aquatic rodent of the genus Castor, having a wide, flat tail and webbed feet.As a proper noun Beaver is
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English
(wikipedia helmet)Alternative forms
* helmette (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=Now that she had rested and had fed from the luncheon tray Mrs. Broome had just removed, she had reverted to her normal gaiety. She looked cool in a grey tailored cotton dress with a terracotta scarf and shoes and her hair a black silk helmet .}}
Synonyms
* brain bucket, hard hatDerived terms
* bicycle helmet * construction helmet * crash helmetbeaver
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