Slew vs Plew - What's the difference?
slew | plew |
(US) A large amount.
(nautical) To rotate or turn something about its axis.
To veer a vehicle.
To insert extra ticks or skip some ticks of a clock to slowly correct its time.
To pivot.
To skid.
(rail transport) to move something (usually a railway line) sideways
(transitive, British, slang) To make a public mockery of someone through insult or wit.
(slay)
(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
As nouns the difference between slew and plew
is that slew is (us) a large amount or slew can be the act, or process of slaying while plew is (north america) beaver pelt.As a verb slew
is (nautical) to rotate or turn something about its axis or slew can be (slay).slew
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) (noun only)Noun
(en noun)- She has a slew of papers and notebooks strewn all over her desk.
See also
* onslaughtEtymology 2
In all senses, a mostly British spelling of slue.Verb
(en verb)- The single line was slewed onto the disused up formation to make way for the future redoubling
Etymology 3
Verb
(head)See also
* slainAnagrams
*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,