different between plew vs plex

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

English

Noun

plex (plural plexes)

1. (Canada) A building, such as a duplex or triplex, with a number of apartments (typically two to four) that all open directly to the outside.
   • 2001, Thomas F. McIlwraith, Edward K. Muller, North America: The Historical Geography of a Changing Continent (page 457)

     Most new housing has taken the form of single-family dwellings, not plexes, and levels of home ownership have risen steadily.

   • 2004, Richard Harris, Creeping Conformity: How Canada Became Suburban, 1900-1960 (page 34)

     English-style terraced houses or the cheaper type of Montreal plexes that opened directly onto the street made such a way of life possible, but just barely.

2. (computing) A designated portion of a disk, usually set up to mirror some of the contents.
   • 2002, Paul Massiglia, Highly Available Storage for Windows Servers (page 60)

     Striped volumes of mirrored plexes can survive failure of up to half of their disks.

3. Clipping of multiplex.