DCHP-1 Online
old bachelor Obs. 
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- 1763, 1901 There are beavers, called, by the Indians, old bachelors, who live by themselves, build no houses, and work at no dams, but shelter themselves in holes.
- 1829 . . . the beavers leave their dams, and betake themselves to the banks of solitary rivers, and live, as the Indians report, old bachelors.
- 1763, 1901 There are beavers, called, by the Indians, old bachelors, who live by themselves, build no houses, and work at no dams, but shelter themselves in holes.