# beavering

Pronunciation: US say "BEE-ver-ing" /ˈbivəɹɪŋ/; UK say "BEE-vuh-ring" /ˈbiːvəɹɪŋ/

## Verb

1. Present participle of beaver. — present participle and gerund of beaver
   - Simple: Present participle of beaver. Use this form when someone is working hard at something right now.
   - _He kept beavering away at the manuscript long after midnight._
   - _The volunteers were beavering through stacks of paperwork._

## Noun

2. The activity of hunting or trapping beavers.
   - Simple: The work of hunting or trapping beavers for their fur.
   - _Beavering supported a thriving fur trade across the colonial frontier._
   - _Years of intensive beavering nearly wiped out the local populations._

## Origin

Formed from beaver plus the suffix -ing.

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/beavering (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).