pelts
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Spiders so large they appear to be wearing the pelts of small mammals.
He that pelts every barking dog must pick up a great many stones.
He who pelts another with paddles asks for stones in return.
A by-product of the trade in beaver pelts was castoreum —the secretion of the animals' anal glands—which was used for its medicinal properties and for perfumes.
After his crew returned to Russia with sea otter pelts judged to be the finest fur in the world, small associations of fur traders began to sail from the shores of Siberia toward the Aleutian Islands.
At the time, beaver pelts were highly prized in Europe, because the fur could be felted to make waterproof hats.