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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

PELT, n. [L. pellis.]
1. The skin of a beast with the hair on it; a raw hide.
2. The quarry of a hawk all torn.
3. A blow or stroke from something thrown. [infra.]
PELT, v.t. [L. pello.]
1. Properly, to strike with something thrown, driven or falling; as, to pelt with stones; pelted with hail.
The chiding billows seem to pelt the clouds.
2. To drive by throwing something.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: the dressed hairy coat of a mammal [syn: fur, pelt]
2: body covering of a living animal [syn: hide, pelt, skin] v
1: cast, hurl, or throw repeatedly with some missile; "They pelted each other with snowballs" [syn: pelt, bombard]
2: attack and bombard with or as if with missiles; "pelt the speaker with questions" [syn: pepper, pelt]
3: rain heavily; "Put on your rain coat-- it's pouring outside!" [syn: pour, pelt, stream, rain cats and dogs, rain buckets]

Merriam Webster's

I. noun Etymology: Middle English, probably from pelett animal skin, from Anglo-French pelette — more at peltry Date: 15th century 1. a usually undressed skin with its hair, wool, or fur 2. a skin stripped of hair or wool for tanning II. transitive verb Date: 1596 to strip off the skin or pelt of (an animal) III. verb Etymology: Middle English Date: 15th century transitive verb 1. a. to strike with a succession of blows or missiles <pelted him with stones> b. to assail vigorously or persistently <pelted her with accusations> 2. hurl, throw <pelted snowballs at them> 3. to beat or dash repeatedly against <hailstones pelting the roof> intransitive verb 1. to deliver a succession of blows or missiles 2. to beat incessantly 3. to move rapidly and vigorously ; hurry • pelter noun IV. noun Date: 1513 blow, whack

Oxford Reference Dictionary

1. v. & n. --v. 1 tr. (usu. foll. by with) a hurl many small missiles at. b strike repeatedly with missiles. c assail (a person etc.) with insults, abuse, etc. 2 intr. (usu. foll. by down) (of rain etc.) fall quickly and torrentially. 3 intr. run fast. 4 intr. (often foll. by at) fire repeatedly. --n. the act or an instance of pelting. Phrases and idioms: at full pelt as fast as possible. Etymology: 16th c.: orig. unkn. 2. n. 1 the undressed skin of a fur-bearing mammal. 2 the skin of a sheep, goat, etc. with short wool, or stripped ready for tanning. 3 joc. the human skin. Derivatives: peltry n. Etymology: ME f. obs. pellet skin, dimin. of pel f. AF pell, OF pel, or back-form. f. peltry, AF pelterie, OF peleterie f. peletier furrier, ult. f. L pellis skin

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Pelt Pelt, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Pelted; p. pr. & vb. n. Pelting.] [OE. pelten, pulten, pilten, to thrust, throw, strike; cf. L. pultare, equiv. to pulsare (v. freq. fr. pellere to drive), and E. pulse a beating.] 1. To strike with something thrown or driven; to assail with pellets or missiles, as, to pelt with stones; pelted with hail. The children billows seem to pelt the clouds. --Shak. 2. To throw; to use as a missile. My Phillis me with pelted apples plies. --Dryden.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Pelt Pelt, v. i. 1. To throw missiles. --Shak. 2. To throw out words. [Obs.] Another smothered seems to peltand swear. --Shak.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Pelt Pelt, n. A blow or stroke from something thrown.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Pelt Pelt, n. [Cf. G. pelz a pelt, fur, fr. OF. pelice, F. pelisse (see Pelisse); or perh. shortened fr. peltry.] 1. The skin of a beast with the hair on; a raw or undressed hide; a skin preserved with the hairy or woolly covering on it. See 4th Fell. --Sir T. Browne. Raw pelts clapped about them for their clothes. --Fuller. 2. The human skin. [Jocose] --Dryden. 3. (Falconry) The body of any quarry killed by the hawk. Pelt rot, a disease affecting the hair or wool of a beast.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(pelts, pelting, pelted) 1. The pelt of an animal is its skin, which can be used to make clothing or rugs. ...a bed covered with beaver pelts. = hide N-COUNT: usu pl 2. If you pelt someone with things, you throw things at them. Some of the younger men began to pelt one another with snowballs... VERB: V n with n 3. If the rain is pelting down, or if it is pelting with rain, it is raining very hard. (INFORMAL) The rain now was pelting down... It's pelting with rain... We drove through pelting rain. VERB: usu cont, V adv, it V with n, V-ing 4. If you pelt somewhere, you run there very fast. (INFORMAL) Without thinking, she pelted down the stairs in her nightgown. = dash VERB: V prep 5. If you do something full pelt or at full pelt, you do it very quickly indeed. (INFORMAL) Alice leapt from the car and ran full pelt towards the emergency room... PHRASE: PHR after v

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

I. n. Skin (of a beast with the hair on it), hide, raw hide, undressed hide. II. v. a. 1. Strike (with something thrown), beat, batter, assail with missiles, belabor. 2. Throw, cast, hurl.

1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue

A heat, chafe, or passion; as, What a pelt he was in! Pelt is also the skin of several beasts.

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