plew

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Definition of plew

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noun

(Canada, US)beaver pelt

“The cured "plew" of the adult beaver weighed about a pound and a half and at best would fetch from four to six dollars a pound at the mountain rendezvous”
“"The days when a good plew fetched six dollars, beaver or kitten, is over," he grumbled. "The beaver trade's rubbed out, Lank.”
“The price for a pint was a beaver plew or an Indian buffalo robe. Coffee and gunpowder were a plew or a robe a pound, blankets fifteen plews apiece,”

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noun

(Canada, US)beaver pelt

“The cured "plew" of the adult beaver weighed about a pound and a half and at best would fetch from four to six dollars a pound at the mountain rendezvous”
“"The days when a good plew fetched six dollars, beaver or kitten, is over," he grumbled. "The beaver trade's rubbed out, Lank.”
“The price for a pint was a beaver plew or an Indian buffalo robe. Coffee and gunpowder were a plew or a robe a pound, blankets fifteen plews apiece,”
(alt-of, alternative, dialectal, obsolete)Alternative form of plough.

name

(countable, uncountable)A surname.
(countable, uncountable)An unincorporated community in Lawrence County, Missouri, United States.

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From Canadian French, from French poilu (“hairy”). Doublet of poilu.

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