peltry

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The sheriff for serving a writ or a warrant shall receive three livers in peltry; for levying an execution, 5 per cent, including the fees of the clerk of the court.

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

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

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

Brashears had departed for New Orleans without settling the account for the peltry which Todd had committed to the joint care of Montgomery and Winston.

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

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