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plew
noun 2name 2
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2ADJ.
adult, cured, good
PLEW + NOUN
dollars, indian, robe
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noun
1
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.
noun
1
Alternative form of plough.
name
1
A surname.
2
An unincorporated community in Lawrence County, Missouri, United States.
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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
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"The days when a good plew fetched six dollars, beaver or kitten, is over," he grumbled. "The beaver trade's rubbed out, Lank.
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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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