Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An obsolete form of
beaver . - noun An obsolete form of
beaver . - noun A collation or slight repast between meals.
- noun Formerly, at some colleges and schools, a slight meal which the students received at the buttery-hatch and took to their rooms.
- To take a bever or slight repast between meals.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete A light repast between meals; a lunch.
- intransitive verb obsolete To take a light repast between meals.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb intransitive To
tremble ;shake ;quiver ;shiver . - noun A
drink . - noun archaic A
snack or light refreshment between meals. - verb obsolete To take a light repast between meals.
- noun A
movable covering for themouth andchin on aclose helmet .
Etymologies
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Examples
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"bever," being passed in two two-quart tankards from hand to hand down the commons table.
Customs and Fashions in Old New England Alice Morse Earle 1881
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Cheney, more devastating than any WMD could bever be!
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December 20th, 2008 at 2: 01 pm indeed. an overwrought review of a sonic youth album for Ego Trip was the crowing achievement of my fleeting career in music criticism. noah callahan-bever – mid 90s berkeley carroll school represent!
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Particularly pernicious examples of packaging are the flimsy plastic bags given out by stores in which to carry Stuff home, and single-serving bever age containers.
THE STORY OF STUFF Annie Leonard 2010
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I've also heard of a place you can send your hides to that will make deerskin gloves -- and there's another place that will make a hat from a bever pelt!
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Particularly pernicious examples of packaging are the flimsy plastic bags given out by stores in which to carry Stuff home, and single-serving bever age containers.
THE STORY OF STUFF Annie Leonard 2010
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Particularly pernicious examples of packaging are the flimsy plastic bags given out by stores in which to carry Stuff home, and single-serving bever age containers.
THE STORY OF STUFF Annie Leonard 2010
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Particularly pernicious examples of packaging are the flimsy plastic bags given out by stores in which to carry Stuff home, and single-serving bever age containers.
THE STORY OF STUFF Annie Leonard 2010
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Keep doing this process until that is there is no longer an Iran, or else they get the message and no that they'll bever be allowed Nukes to, of course, bomb Israel.
John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting... 2009
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Of course, there is that "bever fever", but I can still see it being handy for that.
Technological Independence, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
whichbe commented on the word bever
A between-meal snack.
May 20, 2008