beavered

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He is a most industrious small chopper, and the other day gnawed down, or as the children call it, "beavered" down, a misshapen tulip tree, which was about fifty feet high FINE NAMES FOR GUINEA PIGS To E. S. Martin Oyster Bay, Nov.

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  • The recent GO2020 announcement showed that GO Transit has not been sleeping while Metrolinx beavered away with its plan. —  Steve Munro's Web Site
  • Nobody thought Office could replace WordStar, but MS beavered away at it, adding new features people liked and matching existing features, and now it's a distant memory. —  Slashdot: Apache
  • They had nothing in the database server market, but they bought SQL Server from Sybase and beavered away at it, and now they run a decent percentage of websites and many businesses. —  Slashdot: Apache
  • Amidst all this fun and excitement, our researchers beavered on. —  Daily automotive news and comment - from just-auto.com
  • Thousands of workers beavered on both sides of the border to restore power and reopen roads and rail lines blocked by trees uprooted Saturday by the worst storms to hit southwestern France and northern Spain in a decade. —  Channel NewsAsia Front Page News
 

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