plew
See also: Plew
English edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Canadian French, from French poilu (“hairy”). Doublet of poilu.
Noun edit
plew (plural plews)
- (Canada, US) beaver pelt
- 1967, John Arkas Hawgood, America's Western Frontiers: The Exploration and Settlement, page 96:
- 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
- 2001, Armstrong Sperry, Wagons Westward: The Old Trail to Santa Fe, page 7:
- "The days when a good plew fetched six dollars, beaver or kitten, is over," he grumbled. "The beaver trade's rubbed out, Lank.
- 2005, Ralph Moody, Stanley Galli, Kit Carson And The Wild Frontier, page 46:
- 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,
Etymology 2 edit
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plew (plural plews)
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