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beaver castor

• the secretion from the scent glands of the beaver used as a lure or as an ingredient in a lure.

  See also: beaver medicine  

  • 1907  The odor of the beaver castor has a very alluring effect on most all animals, and is greatly used by the hunter.
  • 1965  . . . with a favorable breeze he probably could smell that mixture of fish oil and beaver castor . . . a half a mile away.