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plew en · NOUN · etymology 1

Etymology

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

Meanings

1. (Canada, US) beaver pelt
   • 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, 2005, Ralph Moody, Stanley Galli, Kit Carson And The Wild Frontier, page 46:
   • "The days when a good plew fetched six dollars, beaver or kitten, is over," he grumbled. "The beaver trade's rubbed out, Lank. 2001, Armstrong Sperry, Wagons Westward: The Old Trail to Santa Fe, page 7:
   • 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 1967, John Arkas Hawgood, America's Western Frontiers: The Exploration and Settlement, page 96:

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plew en · NOUN · etymology 2

Meanings

1. (alt-of, alternative, dialectal, obsolete) Alternative form of plough.
   alt of plough

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