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beaver cuttings 
fallen trees, sticks, chips, and pointed stumps left from the activities of beavers.
- 1770 (1792) I named it Watson Pond, and was greatly surprised to find beaver cuttings by the side of it. . . .
- 1824 (1955) Few things are more dangerous . . . than the . . . chaos of logs, uprooted trees and beaver cuttings . . . in such places as this.
- 1937 (1950) In one place beaver cuttings, along a bank of poplars, extend for a quarter of a mile.
- 1770 (1792) I named it Watson Pond, and was greatly surprised to find beaver cuttings by the side of it. . . .