DCHP-2

cabin DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

• n.

  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  

  • 1760  These cabbins are generally capable of lodging eight or ten beavers. . . .
  • 1823  Each cabin has its own magazine, proportioned by the number of its inhabitants, who have all common right to the store, and never pillage their neighbours.
  • 1915  Beaver were made the object of the most careful "farming," the numbers of occupants, old and young, to each "cabin" being kept count of.