Meaning of plew | Babel Free

Definitions

1. beaver pelt
   Canada, US
2. A surname.
   countable, uncountable
3. An unincorporated community in Lawrence County, Missouri, United States.
   countable, uncountable

Examples

“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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