Plural of beavery; places, operations, or collective activities related to beaver trapping, beaver fur trade, or beaver products.
Plural form of beavery, from beaver plus the suffix -ery (from Old French -erie, meaning 'place of' or 'business of'). Follows the pattern of words like 'drapery' and 'archery.'
The -ery suffix is one of English's most creative word factories—it can turn almost any noun into either a place (like a bakery) or an activity (like archery)—and beaveries perfectly captures the 18th-century fur trade economy where beaver processing was a major business.
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