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plu
[< Cdn F < F pelu skin, pelt]
Fur Trade, Hist.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Spelling variants:plew, plue, and (erroneously) plus, the last form being a plural form, used along with plews, plues
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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1n.
a prime beaver skin or other fur of equivalent value.
See: made beaver(def. 1)
The plu was the standard unit of value used in the fur country by the North West Company, the made beaver being the equivalent unit with the Hudson's Bay Company.
Quotations
1800
The Iroquois . . . Makes us signes he & his 7 friends have 400 Plues.
1804
In the afternoon Young Jourdin arrived . . . with 27 Plus and left as many at the lodge.
1826
The Servants attached to the Sanke Expedition brought Two thousand one hundred and eighty eight plus in Beaver weighing Two thousand eight hundred and seventeen pounds, and Seventy nine plus in Otters.
1963
All other skins were graded in value to the beaver standard of the "plus" [sic]
2n.
a unit of value of one made beaver applied to goods other than furs.
Quotations
1794
Tranquille bought a slave woman--i.e., taken in war . . . for two horses and 20 pluëz in goods.
1811
At this date we received only seven plues of fresh meat and were upon this little suply no less than eight months, of course it was but two meals.