plew
/plˈu/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.03 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
An unincorporated community in Lawrence County, Missouri, United States.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "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 days when a good plew fetched six dollars, beaver or kitten, is over," he grumbled. "The beaver trade's rubbed out, Lank."
- "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,"