The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word BEAVER
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More clues leading to the result BEAVER
- Take responsibility for catching extremely valuable animal
- State support for engineer, specialist dam-builder
- Work hard to remain a clergyman up north
- Be mostly against dam’ hard worker?
- Castor live? Declare to be true
- Work hard to become a clergyman in retreat
- Drowning in drink is a very small rodent
- Partially describe a very busy creature
- Drowning in drink is a very small animal
- Creature’s very energy absorbed by other creature
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What does BEAVER mean?
BEAVER noun- A semiaquatic rodent of the genus Castor, having a wide, flat tail and webbed feet.
- A hat, of various shapes, made from a felted beaver fur (or later of silk), fashionable in Europe between 1550 and 1850.
- The pubic hair and/or vulva of a woman.
- The fur of the beaver.
- Beaver cloth, a heavy felted woollen cloth, used chiefly for making overcoats.
- A brown colour, like that of a beaver (also called beaver brown).
- A man who wears a beard.
- A portion of plate armour to protect the lower face and the neck, typically in two parts, called upper bevor and lower bevor.