Plew vs Plewd - What's the difference?
plew | plewd |
(North America) beaver pelt
* 1967 , John Arkas Hawgood, America's Western Frontiers: The Exploration and Settlement , page 96
* 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
A stylized drawing of a drop of liquid, as used in cartoons, especially comic strips.
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As nouns the difference between plew and plewd
is that plew is (north america) beaver pelt while plewd is a stylized drawing of a drop of liquid, as used in cartoons, especially comic strips.plew
English
Noun
(en noun)- 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
- 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,
