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beaver skin

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Usage examples (16)
  • Thur's clur ground not fur from us; and I'd stak a plew thur in it.
  • Company alone buying it by the pluie, or "plew," that is, the whole skin, giving a certain price for skins, whether of old beaver or "kittens."
  • Learning that on his return he would proceed to the same locality in quest of "beaver plew," I determined to accompany him.
  • Tea, you must know, is styled ` plew 'on board, in the slang of the training-ship; possibly, through some association with the ` sky blue' known in the boarding-schools...
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