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plew

plew noun: beaver pelt. Also the alternative form of plough.

Noun

plew (plural plews)

  1. (Canada, US) 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 rendezvous1967, John Arkas Hawgood, America's Western Frontiers: The Exploration and Settlement, page 96
    • "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

Proper noun capitalized: Plew

Plew (countable and uncountable, plural Plews)

  1. A surname.
  2. An unincorporated community in Lawrence County, Missouri, United States.

Also used as

plew is also the alternative form of plough.

Forms of plew

Noun
pluralplews
Proper noun
pluralPlews

Origin of plew

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

Questions about plew

What does plew mean?
Plew means beaver pelt.
What part of speech is plew?
Plew can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of plew?
The plural of plew is plews.

Words near plew in the dictionary

  1. Pleva
  2. Plevas
  3. Pleven
  4. plevin
  5. plevins
  6. plew
  7. Plewa
  8. Plewas
  9. plewd
  10. plewds
  11. plews

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