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pelt |
5 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Pelt \Pelt\, v. i. 1. To throw missiles. --Shak. 2. To throw out words [Obs.] Another smothered seems to peltand swear. --Shak. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Pelt \Pelt\, n. A blow or stroke from something thrown. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: pelt n 1: the dressed hairy coat of a mammal [syn: {fur}] 2: body covering of a living animal [syn: {hide}, {skin}] v 1: cast, hurl, or throw repeatedly with some missile; "They pelted each other with snowballs" [syn: {bombard}] 2: attack with missiles or questions [syn: {pepper}] 3: rain heavily; "Put on your rain coat--it's pouring outside!" [syn: {pour}, {stream}, {rain cats and dogs}, {rain buckets}]
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