plewn.

Brit.

/pluː/, U.S.

/plu/, Canadian English

/pluː/

Forms: 1800s plu, 1800s plue, 1800s pluie, 1800s– plew.

Origin: Apparently a borrowing from French. Etymon: French pelu.

Etymology: Apparently < Canadian French pelu pelt of a beaver, use as noun of Canadian French pelu , variant of French poilu (adjective) hairy (see poilu n.), although the relevant use as noun is apparently not recorded in dictionaries of Canadian French.

Originally Canadian. Now historical.

The pelt of a beaver.

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society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > skin or hide > skin with hair attached or fur > [noun] > of beaver

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1800 A. N. McLeod Diary in C. M. Gates Five Fur Traders (1933) 143 The Iroquois... Makes us signs he & his 7 friends have 400 Plues.

1847 G. F. Ruxton Adventures Mexico & Rocky Mts. 245 The ‘beaver’ is purchased at from two to eight dollars per pound: the Hudson's Bay Company, alone buying it by the pluie or ‘plew’, that is the whole skin.

1899 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Jan. 40/1 Each beaver-plew of full-grown animal or ‘kitten’ fetched six to eight dollars overhead.

1947 B. A. De Voto Across Wide Missouri 158 The free trapper had to prepare his plews himself unless he had a wife or there was a village of Indians at hand where he could hire a squaw.

1995 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 18 Mar. d6/5 A popular commodity-currency with the North West Company was the prime beaver pelt, sometimes referred to as a ‘plew’, from the French-Canadian pelu, pelt.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	plew
释义	plewn. Brit. /pluː/, U.S. /plu/, Canadian English /pluː/ Forms: 1800s plu, 1800s plue, 1800s pluie, 1800s– plew. Origin: Apparently a borrowing from French. Etymon: French pelu. Etymology: Apparently < Canadian French pelu pelt of a beaver, use as noun of Canadian French pelu , variant of French poilu (adjective) hairy (see poilu n.), although the relevant use as noun is apparently not recorded in dictionaries of Canadian French. Originally Canadian. Now historical. The pelt of a beaver. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > skin or hide > skin with hair attached or fur > [noun] > of beaver beaverc1394 beaver-skin1616 flix1667 mitten beaver1744 beaver-wool1780 plew1800 beaver-fur1855 1800 A. N. McLeod Diary in C. M. Gates Five Fur Traders (1933) 143 The Iroquois... Makes us signs he & his 7 friends have 400 Plues. 1847 G. F. Ruxton Adventures Mexico & Rocky Mts. 245 The ‘beaver’ is purchased at from two to eight dollars per pound: the Hudson's Bay Company, alone buying it by the pluie or ‘plew’, that is the whole skin. 1899 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Jan. 40/1 Each beaver-plew of full-grown animal or ‘kitten’ fetched six to eight dollars overhead. 1947 B. A. De Voto Across Wide Missouri 158 The free trapper had to prepare his plews himself unless he had a wife or there was a village of Indians at hand where he could hire a squaw. 1995 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 18 Mar. d6/5 A popular commodity-currency with the North West Company was the prime beaver pelt, sometimes referred to as a ‘plew’, from the French-Canadian pelu, pelt. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1800
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