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Pelt

Pelt Meaning & Definition
Pelt Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Pelt?

[n] body covering of a living animal
[n] the dressed hairy coat of a mammal
[v] attack with missiles or questions
[v] cast, hurl, or throw repeatedly with some missile; "They pelted each other with snowballs"
[v] rain heavily; "Put on your rain coat-- it's pouring outside!"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Pelt: bombard | fur | hide | pepper | pour | rain buckets | rain cats and dogs | skin | stream

Related Terms | Find terms related to Pelt: assail | assault | attack | Australian seal | bang | barrel | bash | baste | bat | batter | bearskin | beat | beating | beaver | beaverette | beeline | belabor | belt | biff | black fox | black marten | black sable | blow | bomb | bombard | bonk | bowl | brickbat | bristle | brook mink | buckskin | buffet | calf | calfskin | capeskin | capillament | cast | cat | catapult | charge | chinchilla | chinchillette | chop | chuck | chunk | cilium | clip | clobber | clout | clump | coast seal | coat | cock | come down | coney | cowhide | crack | cut | cuticle | dart | dash | deerskin | dermis | detonate | dig | dint | discharge | doeskin | drizzle | drop | drub | drubbing | drum | drumming | egg | eject | electric seal | ermine | fall | fell | fire | fire off | flail | flap | fleece | fleet | flesh | fling | flip | fly | fork | fox | fur | furring | furs | fusillade | genet | goatskin | gun | gun for | hair | heave | hide | highball | hit | horsehair | hotfoot | hurl | hurry | hurtle | imitation fur | imitation leather | integument | jab | jacket | jaguar | jerk | knock | lambaste | lance | lapidate | lapin | larrup | launch | lay about | leather | leather paper | Leatherette | Leatheroid | leopard | let fly | let off | lick | load | lob | mane | marmot | marten | maul | merino | mink | mizzle | mole | moleskin | monkey | muskrat | nutria | otter | outer layer | outer skin | pass | paste | patter | peg | pellet | peltry | pelts | pepper | pick off | pigskin | pile | pistol | pitch | pitchfork | pitter-patter | plug | plunk | poke | pommel | pot | potshoot | potshot | pound | pour | pour with rain | precipitate | prime | pubescence | pubic hair | pulverize | pummel | punch | put | put the shot | rabbit | rabbitskin | raccoon | rain | rain tadpoles | rap | rawhide | riddle | rind | run | rush | sable | scoot | scurry | seal | serve | setula | shag | shagreen | sheath | sheepskin | shell | shoot | shoot at | shoot down | shower | shower down | shy | skin | skins | skunk | slam | slap | sledgehammer | sling | slog | slug | smack | smash | snap | snipe | sock | spank | spatter | spit | sprinkle | squirrel | stone | strafe | stream | strike | stroke | swat | swing | swipe | take a potshot | tattoo | teem | tegument | thrash | thresh | throw | thump | thwack | tiger | tilt | torpedo | toss | vair | wallop | weep | whack | whip | white fox | whop | wool | work over | yerk

See Also | animal skin | assail | astrakhan | attack | bearskin | beaver | body covering | chinchilla | egg | ermine | fox | lambskin | lapidate | lapin | leopard | mink | muskrat | otter | rabbit | raccoon | rain | rain down | sable | seal | sealskin | sheet | sluice | sluice down | snowball | squirrel | throw | throw

Pelt In Webster's Dictionary

\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.
\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.
\Pelt\, v. i. 1. To throw missiles. --Shak. 2. To throw out words. [Obs.] Another smothered seems to peltand swear. --Shak.
\Pelt\, n. A blow or stroke from something thrown.

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