Pelt

6 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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.
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              The chidden billows seem to pelt the clouds. --Shak.
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     2. To throw; to use as a missile.
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              My Phillis me with pelted apples plies. --Dryden.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Pelt \Pelt\, v. i.
     1. To throw missiles. --Shak.
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     2. To throw out words. [Obs.]
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              Another smothered seems to pelt and swear. --Shak.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Pelt \Pelt\, n.
     A blow or stroke from something thrown.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Pelt \Pelt\ (p[e^]lt), 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.
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              Raw pelts clapped about them for their clothes.
                                                    --Fuller.
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     2. The human skin. [Jocose] --Dryden.
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     3. (Falconry) The body of any quarry killed by the hawk.
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     {Pelt rot}, a disease affecting the hair or wool of a beast.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [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 and bombard with or as if with missiles; "pelt the
          speaker with  questions" [syn: {pepper}]
       3: rain heavily; "Put on your rain coat-- it's pouring
          outside!" [syn: {pour}, {stream}, {rain cats and dogs}, {rain
          buckets}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  262 Moby Thesaurus words for "pelt":
     Australian seal, Leatherette, Leatheroid, assail, assault, attack,
     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, 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