beaver³ n Cp EDD ~ sb3 'bushes' Do, beever 'a growth of brambles' So. Attrib beaver thorn: in children's rhyme, the name of the common garden slug.
   C 69-17 Children at Elliston spent a lot of time playing with garden snails, called beaver thorns. C 70-21 We believed that if you stood over a snail and repeated the words 'Beaverthorn / Put out your horns, / The cows are in your garden,' it would put out its horns.

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