peltry

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

Their clothes consist of gaily-painted deer-hide, ornamented with beads, and the gayest calicoes, which they obtain from the Government trading posts by bartering peltry for them.

From The Backwoodsman or, Life on the Indian Frontier by Various

The clerk for issuing a writ shall receive three livers in peltry, and all other fees as heretofore.

From The Settlement of Illinois, 1778-1830 by Boggess, Arthur Clinton

The peltry of the north, no less than the gold and silver of the south, gave impetus to the efforts of those who first settled the western hemisphere.

From The Red River Colony A Chronicle of the Beginnings of Manitoba by Wood, Louis Aubrey

Well on into the nineteenth century fur traders were still sending in supplies from Montreal and bringing back peltry from Fort William in flotillas of great bark canoes.

From The Railway Builders A Chronicle of Overland Highways by Skelton, Oscar Douglas

The Company would not venture its peltry on the lower rapid where the river rushes down almost like a waterfall.

From The "Adventurers of England" on Hudson Bay A Chronicle of the Fur Trade in the North (Volume 18 of the Chronicles of Canada) by Laut, Agnes C. (Agnes Christina)