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Pelting definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

PELT'ING, ppr. Striking with something thrown or driven.
PELT'ING, n. An assault with any thing thrown.
PELT'ING, a. In Shakespeare,mean; paltry. [Improper.]
PELT'-MONGER, n. A dealer in pelts or raw hides.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: anything happening rapidly or in quick successive; "a rain of bullets"; "a pelting of insults" [syn: rain, pelting]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Etymology: probably from English dialect pelt piece of trash Date: 1540 archaic paltry, insignificant

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Pelting Pel"ting, a. Mean; paltry. [Obs.] --Shak.

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.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. Beating, battering.