beaver

suomi-englanti sanakirja

beaver englannista suomeksi

  1. puurtaa, ahkeroida, uurastaa

  2. visiiri, silmikko

  3. majavannahka

  4. majava

  5. karvahattu

  6. parrakas mies, partasuu

  7. silkkihattu

  1. majava

  2. majavannahka

  3. tummanruskea

  4. tuhero, ryijy, karvakolmio

beaver englanniksi

  1. Beaver

  1. (senseid) A semiaquatic rodent of the genus ''Castor'', having a wide, flat tail and webbed feet.

  2. (quote-book ) |mainauthor=Edmund Spenser |editor=Charles Cowden Clarke |title=The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser |url=https://archive.org/details/poeticalworksed06unkngoog/page/n124 |location=Edinburgh |publisher=William P. Nimmo |year_published=1868 |page=112 |lines=1117–1126 |passage=Then, for the safeguard of his personage,He did appoint a warlike equipageOf foreign beasts, not in the forest bred,But part by land and part by water fed;For tyranny is with strange aid supported.Then unto him all monstrous beasts resortedBred of two kinds, as Griffons, Minotaurs,Crocodiles, Dragons, Beavers, and Centaurs:With those himself he strengthened mightily,That fear he need no force of enemy.

  3. The fur of the beaver.

  4. (syn)

  5. A hat, of various shapes, made from a felted beaver fur (or later of silk), fashionable in Europe between 1550 and 1850.

  6. (RQ:Prescott Philip 2)

  7. {{quote-text|en|year=1896|title=For the White Rose of Arno|author=Owen Rhoscomyl

  8. Beaver pelts as an article of exchange or as a standard of value.

  9. Beaver cloth, a heavy felted woollen cloth, used chiefly for making overcoats.

  10. A brown colour, like that of a beaver.

  11. (color panel)

  12. A move in response to being doubled, in which one immediately doubles the stakes again, keeping the doubling cube on one’s own side of the board.

  13. (senseid) (alternative case form of).

  14. (senseid) To work hard.

  15. (quote-book )

  16. To cut a continuous ring around a tree that one is felling.

  17. After being doubled, to immediately double the stakes again, a move that keeps the doubling cube on one’s own side of the board.

  18. (senseid) (alternative spelling of).

  19. (RQ:Shakespeare Henry 6-3)

  20. 1600, (w), The ''Jerusalem Delivered'' of Tasso, XII, lxvii:

  21. With trembling hands her beaver he untied, / Which done, he saw, and seeing knew her face.
  22. (quote-text)

  23. 1951 Adaptation of the 1885 Ormsby translation of Cervantes’ Don Quixote, correcting Ormsby as to the portion of the helmet referred to by Cervantes (see note 11 to chapter II) at the suggestion of Juan Hartzenbusch, a 19th-century director of the National Library of Spain.

  24. They laid a table for him at the door of the inn for the sake of the air, and the host brought him a portion of ill-soaked and worse cooked stockfish, and a piece of bread as black and mouldy as his own armour; but a laughble sight it was to see him eating, for having his helmet on and the beaver up, he could not with his own hands put anything into his mouth unless some one else placed it there, and this service one of the ladies rendered him.
  25. (quote-text)|page=128|publisher=Faber & Faber|year_published=1992

  26. Butter.

  27. To form a felt-like texture, similar to the way beaver fur is used for felt-making.

  28. (quote-book ) |title=General View of the Agriculture of the County of Lincoln |location=London |page=155 |passage=Without these attentions the woad will not ''beaver'' well, a term descriptive of the fineness of the capillary filaments into which it draws out when broken between the finger and thumb.

  29. (non-gloss definition)

  30. (senseid) A beard or a bearded person.

  31. (quote-book )| passage=The beards were false ones. I could see the elastic going over their ears. In other words, I had fallen among a band of criminals who were not wilful beavers, but had merely assumed the fungus for purposes of disguise.

  32. (senseid) A game, in which points are scored by spotting beards.

  33. (non-gloss definition)

  34. (senseid) The hair near a vulva or a vulva itself; (n-g).

  35. (quote-av)|year=1975|writer=Lawrence Hauben; Bo Goldman|director=Miloš Forman|role=Randle McMurphy|actor=Jack Nicholson|passage=Between you and me, uh, she might have been fifteen, but when you get that little red beaver right up there in front of you, I don’t think it's crazy at all and I don’t think you do either.

  36. (quote-av)

  37. (quote-book ) once she wore none at all, swears to this day that he saw her beaver that fateful Friday night.

  38. A woman, especially one who is sexually attractive.

  39. (quote-journal )

  40. To spot a beard in a game of beaver.