plew

plural plews

1. CanadaUSbeaver pelt

   "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

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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

   1967, John Arkas Hawgood, America's Western Frontiers: The Exploration and Settlement, page 96

   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

plural plews

1. alternativedialectalobsoleteAlternative form of plough.

plural Plews

1. countableuncountableA surname.
2. countableuncountableAn unincorporated community in Lawrence County, Missouri, United States.