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- noun North America
beaver pelt
Etymologies
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Examples
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Thur's clur ground not fur from us; and I'd stak a plew thur in it.
The Scalp Hunters Mayne Reid 1850
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Company alone buying it by the pluie, or "plew," that is, the whole skin, giving a certain price for skins, whether of old beaver or "kittens."
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A pair-fectly good *plew* eet has gone to waste and zerefore lost hees value, mon dieu!
I didn't know we had these in Red State. Angry Professor 2009
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January 11, 2008 at 6:26 am beet op ob curse. hard boiled? plew do no want. would taste funee tho…
eeeeeeeeeexcellent. - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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Learning that on his return he would proceed to the same locality in quest of "beaver plew," I determined to accompany him.
Seven and Nine years Among the Camanches and Apaches An Autobiography Edwin Eastman
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Tea, you must know, is styled ` plew 'on board, in the slang of the training-ship; possibly, through some association with the ` sky blue' known in the boarding-schools of shore folk.
Young Tom Bowling The Boys of the British Navy John B. [Illustrator] Greene
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"Ta bag," he said confidentially, "she isn't a hundert years auld, but she's auld, and she was proke, and ta wint whustled when she plew, but she's chust mended, and to-morrow -- ah, to-morrow!"
Three Boys or the Chiefs of the Clan Mackhai George Manville Fenn 1870
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_Carrambo_! it's fetched beaver down to a plew a plug; while only ten years ago, we could get six _pesos_ the skin!
The Wild Huntress Love in the Wilderness Mayne Reid 1850
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"Fifty dollar a plew!" he muttered, unsheathing his knife and stooping over the body.
The Scalp Hunters Mayne Reid 1850
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"Digger plew good as any other; worth jest as much as 'Pash chief."
The Scalp Hunters Mayne Reid 1850
greenmtnlady commented on the word plew
Dictionary.com states this word means "a beaver skin,esp one of good quality".
December 14, 2009