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dry summer beaver
Fur Trade, Hist.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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unprime, or inferior, skins of parchment beaver.
Quotations
<i>c</i>1735
The dry summer beaver, not much valued [bring] about one shilling and ninepence [a pound].
1962
. . . arrangements were made January 4, 1733, to receive dry summer beaver for the following year at 20 sols, and fat summer beaver at 35 sols la livre.