whole beaver

Fur Trade, Obs.

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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the skin of a full-grown four-year-old beaver; hence, a unit of value based on such a skin.

See: made beaver,skin(def. 1)

Quotations

1743

[Beaver] are four years before they Come to the full growth, Distinguished by Whole, _3/4, _1/2 and _1/4 beaver. . . .

1802, 1897

Crow . . . came down Tongue river with 36 whole beavers in a skin canoe.

1821

Beaver, whole or full grown 30 = 30 Whole Beaver. . . .