DCHP-1 Online
beaver pond 
a small body of water formed by the back-up from a beaver dam, usually shallow and swampy away from the dam itself.
See also: beaver run pond (def. 4b)
- 1792 (1905) I came to part of the afore said Beaver Pond, low wet land, not the least frozen, which obliged me to discontinue that line.
- 1962 Then I'd take an axe to the beaver ponds in the creek by the meadow to open up the water holes. . . .
- 1792 (1905) I came to part of the afore said Beaver Pond, low wet land, not the least frozen, which obliged me to discontinue that line.