a domed structure of mud, sticks, stones, etc. built as a rule in a beaver pond behind the dam and used as a den by a family of beavers.
See also: beaver lodge
- 1691  (1929)  In these woods there is abundance of small ponds of water of which there is hardly one Escapes without a Beavour house....
- 1965  Emile Paquette puts a bait of stripped poplar wood near a beaver house . . . and sets his trap in the water below it.