Beaver (disambiguation)

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Contents 1 Sports and games 2 Academia 3 Vehicles 4 Communities 5 Streams 6 Other uses

Beaver may refer to:

• Beaver, the animal
  • American Beaver (Canadian Beaver)
  • European Beaver
  • Giant Beaver - extinct
• Beaver hat, a style of headgear (now mostly obsolete)
• Leave It to Beaver, an American television sitcom which ran from 1957 to 1963
• The Angry Beavers, a 1997 Nickelodeon cartoon
• The Beaver (magazine), the Canadian history magazine
• Beaver (band), a stoner rock band from the Netherlands
• Beaver language, a language of Canada

[edit] Sports and games

• Portland Beavers, a minor league baseball team of the Pacific Coast League
• Oregon State Beavers, the sports teams of Oregon State University
• An optional gambling rule in backgammon
• Steven Menzies (Steve "Beaver" Menzies), Australian rugby league footballer
• Justin Beaver running back for UW-Whitewater Warhawks 2007 Championship Team

[edit] Academia

• Arcadia University, formerly Beaver College
• The Beaver (newspaper), the London School of Economics student newspaper
• Beaver Country Day School, in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts

[edit] Vehicles

• Beaver (passenger train), a named passenger train operated by the Southern Pacific Railroad
• HMS Beaver (F93), a frigate of the Royal Navy
• De Havilland Canada DHC-2 Beaver aircraft
• Beaver bridgelayer, a Canadian armoured bridgelayer based on the Leopard tank
• The Beaver (steamship), important in the history of British Columbia

[edit] Communities

United States

• Beaver, Alaska
• Beaver, Arkansas
• Beaver, Iowa
• Beaver, Ohio
• Beaver, Oklahoma
• Beaver, Oregon
• Beaver, Pennsylvania
• Beaver, Utah
• Beaver, Washington
• Beaver, West Virginia
• Beaver, Wisconsin (disambiguation page)
  • Beaver, Clark County, Wisconsin
  • Beaver, Marinette County, Wisconsin
  • Beaver, Polk County, Wisconsin
• Beaver County, Pennsylvania
• Beaver Township, Michigan
• Beaver Township, Minnesota
• Beaver Township, Pike County, Ohio
• Beaver Township, Pennsylvania

Canada

• Beaver River (electoral district), a federal political riding in Alberta, Canada
• Beaver River, Nova Scotia, a village in southwestern Nova Scotia

United Kingdom

• Belvoir Castle Pronounced "beaver", Belvoir Castle is a stately home in Leicestershire

[edit] Streams

United States

• Beaver River (New York), a tributary of the Black River in New York
• Beaver River (Oklahoma), a river in Oklahoma
• Beaver River (Pennsylvania), a tributary of the Ohio River in Pennsylvania
• Beaver River (Rhode Island), a river in Rhode Island
• Beaver River (Utah), a river in Utah

Canada

• Beaver River (British Columbia), a river in British Columbia
• Beaver River (Ontario), either of two rivers of the name in Ontario
• Beaver River (Canada), a river in Alberta and Saskatchewan
• Beaver River (Yukon), a river in the Yukon Territory

[edit] Other uses

• Beavers (Scouting), a section of Scouting for 6 to 8 year olds
• Silver Beaver Award of the Boy Scouts of America
• Busy Beaver machines, a concept in computability theory
• Beaver (text editor)
• Beaver Tribe, a former name for the Dunneza people living along the Peace River in Canada
• Vagina or vulva (slang)