plew

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

plew (plural plews)

1. (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,

plew (plural plews)

1. (obsolete, dialect) Alternative form of plough.

• Welp, welp

• IPA^(key): /ˈplɛf/

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• Rhymes: -ɛf
• Syllabification: plew

plew f

1. genitive plural of plewa