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Pelts

Parf of speech: Noun, OED Year: 1303, OED Evaluation: N/A

The hide or skin of an animal with the wool, hair, etc., still on it

ExampleMeaning
Speaker 1: That's your territory. Interviewer: And then what did they- what are they doing that for? Is it for- Speaker 2: They sell the pelts. Where you think the fur coats come from?
The fur of an animal with its fur still on it
ExampleMeaning
And a-- and then that was another memory, um, in one of the upstairs rooms that we weren't using because we didn't have that many children then, ah, in the fall, the room would be full of boards with inside out fox pelts.
The fur of an animal with its fur still on it
And I remember one time my son asking me "Well how did you kill them so that you didn't ruin the pelts?" And what we did was, you caught the fox and then we had a- a s-- a building that the bottom level
The fur of an animal with its fur still on it
ExampleMeaning
Ah perhaps with the house, I remember when we only used the downstairs. The upstairs, one room was used for my father's grain and later on, I have an uncle who was in the fox business and he ah- he hung his pelts in one room (laughs). The house has changed quite a bit.
The fur of an animal with its fur still on it