Plew
[ploo] /plu/
noun, Older Use (in Western U.S. and Canada) .
1.
a beaver skin, especially one of prime quality.
/pluː/
noun
1.
(formerly in Canada) a beaver skin used as a standard unit of value in the fur trade
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