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Beaver vs Plew - What's the difference?

beaver | plew |

As nouns the difference between beaver and plew

is that beaver is an aquatic rodent of the genus castor , having a wide, flat tail and webbed feet or beaver can be the lower face-guard of a helmet or beaver can be while plew is (north america) beaver pelt.

beaver

English

(wikipedia beaver) (Castor)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) bever, from (etyl) . Related to brown and bear.

Noun

(en-noun)
  • An aquatic rodent of the genus Castor , having a wide, flat tail and webbed feet.
  • A hat, of various shape, made from a felted beaver fur (or later of silk), fashionable in Europe between 1550 and 1850.
  • * (and other bibliographic particulars) (Prescott)
    • a brown beaver slouched over his eyes
  • (coarse, slang) The pubic hair and/or vulva of a woman.
  • The fur of the beaver.
  • Beaver cloth, a heavy felted woollen cloth, used chiefly for making overcoats.
    • Derived terms
    * American beaver * European beaver
    Related terms
    * bank beaver * beaver away * beavered * beaver rat * busy as a beaver * eager beaver
    See also
    *

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The lower face-guard of a helmet.
  • *1600 , (Edward Fairfax), The Jerusalem Delivered of Tasso, XII, lxvii:
  • *:With trembling hands her beaver he untied, / Which done, he saw, and seeing knew her face.
  • *1819 , (Walter Scott), (Ivanhoe) :
  • *:Without alighting from his horse, the conqueror called for a bowl of wine, and opening the beaver , or lower part of his helmet, announced that he quaffed it, “To all true English hearts, and to the confusion of foreign tyrants.”
  • *1974 , (Lawrence Durrell), , Faber & Faber 1992, p.128:
  • *:As each one brings a little of himself to what he sees you brought the trappings of your historic preoccupations, so that Monsieur flattered you by presenting himself with beaver up like Hamlet's father's ghost!

    • Etymology 3

    Alternative forms.

    Noun

    (en noun)

    • References

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    plew

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (North America) 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,

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