different between plaw vs plew

English

Alternative forms

• play

Etymology

From Middle English plawen, playen, pla?en, from Old English plagian, a dialectal (Anglian) variant of Old English plegian (“to move about quickly, play”). More at play.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -??

Verb

plaw (third-person singular simple present plaws, present participle plawing, simple past and past participle plawed)

1. (intransitive) To boil; seethe.
2. (transitive, Britain dialectal) To boil; boil slightly; parboil.

Noun

plaw (plural plaws)

1. A boiling.

   give meat a plaw

Anagrams

• Walp, pawl

Middle English

Noun

plaw

1. Alternative form of pleye

English

Etymology

From Canadian French, from French poilu (“hairy”). Doublet of poilu.

Noun

plew (plural plews)

1. (Canada, US) beaver pelt
   • 1967, John Arkas Hawgood, America's Western Frontiers: The Exploration and Settlement, page 96

     The cured "plew" of the adult beaver weighed about a pound and a half and at best would fetch from four to six dollars a pound at the mountain rendezvous

   • 2001, Armstrong Sperry, Wagons Westward: The Old Trail to Santa Fe page 7

     "The days when a good plew fetched six dollars, beaver or kitten, is over," he grumbled. "The beaver trade's rubbed out, Lank.

   • 2005, Ralph Moody, Stanley Galli, Kit Carson And The Wild Frontier, Page 46

     The price for a pint was a beaver plew or an Indian buffalo robe. Coffee and gunpowder were a plew or a robe a pound, blankets fifteen plews apiece,

Anagrams

• Welp, welp

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pl?f/

Noun

plew f

1. genitive plural of plewa