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a unit of exchange equilent to the value of one prime beaver pelt, used in buying furs and bartering provisions, more usually referred to be trappers as a skin (def. 1).
Quotations
1784
Many of my Indians have been in since my last, some have done well others indifferent & some very bad indeed only paying 15 out of 65 M Beaver their Debts.
1794
. . . all the Furrs I saw would not amount to 1000 M Beaver . . . but as the large Canoes are returned to Montreal some time since much must have gone down by them. . . .