peltry

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They are an enterprising and erratic race from almost every state, and are usually in the employ of persons of capital and enterprise, and who are concerned in the fur and peltry business.

From A New Guide for Emigrants to the West by Peck, John Mason

Hitherto they had hunted the wild animals merely for subsistence, but now the demand of the traders for furs and peltry stimulated enormously the pursuit of game.

From Glimpses of the Past History of the River St. John, A.D. 1604-1784 by Raymond, W. O. (William Odber)

I'd as lief be descended from a canvased ham as an Astor peltry or a Vanderbilt steamboat.

From The Main Chance by Nicholson, Meredith

I cannot admit any of these derivations, though perhaps my own etymon may not be deemed less irrelevant, viz. pellis, the skin of a beast, whence our English terms pell, pelt, peltry, &c.

From The Curiosities of Heraldry by Lower, Mark Antony

When the sweet acorns, dropping in the frosty night, tempt the coon to a later feast, there is as good sport and primer peltry.

From In New England Fields and Woods by Robinson, Rowland E. (Evans)