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winter beaver
Fur Trade, Hist.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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beaver skins taken with their winter growth of hair, or when prime.
Quotations
1708
Oldmixon, in his British Empire in North America, published in 1708, had this to say about the price for guns in the 1680's or thereabouts: "One with the other 10 good skins; that is Winter Beaver."
1735
The beaver . . . was classified into eight varieties. The first was the fat winter beaver, slain in winter, which was valued at five shillings and sixpence a pound.
1944
The report [1686] . . . approves of the establishment of the standard of trade at half a pound [of Brazil tobacco] for a winter beaver.