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Pelt   /pɛlt/   Listen
noun
Pelt  n.  
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. "Raw pelts clapped about them for their clothes."
2.
The human skin. (Jocose)
3.
(Falconry) The body of any quarry killed by the hawk.
Pelt rot, a disease affecting the hair or wool of a beast.


Pelt  n.  A blow or stroke from something thrown.


verb
Pelt  v. t.  (past & past part. pelted; pres. part. pelting)  
1.
To strike with something thrown or driven; to assail with pellets or missiles, as, to pelt with stones; pelted with hail. "The chidden billows seem to pelt the clouds."
2.
To throw; to use as a missile. "My Phillis me with pelted apples plies."


Pelt  v. i.  
1.
To throw missiles.
2.
To throw out words. (Obs.) "Another smothered seems to pelt and swear."





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"Pelt" Quotes from Famous Books



... gazing at the spot where the shell exploded. "I'm soaked to the pelt. Damn it, 'twill ...
— The Red Horizon • Patrick MacGill
... triumphant, the affair would be deemed too small to merit a notice in the Gazette. He who called out the militia, and quelled amid a shower of balls the late rebellion, was knighted. He who assented amid a shower of eggs to a bill to indemnify the rebels, was created an earl. Now to pelt a governor-general with eggs is an overt act of treason, for it is an attempt to throw off the yoke. If therefore he was advanced in the peerage for remunerating traitors for their losses, he ought now ...
— Nature and Human Nature • Thomas Chandler Haliburton
... another Party, and splashing through the Water. Then we found Mr. Agnew equallie busie with his Apples, mounted half Way up one of the Trees, and throwing Cherry Pippins down into Rose's Apron, and now and then making as though he would pelt her: onlie she dared him, and woulde not be frightened. Her Donkey, chewing Apples in the Corner, with the Cider running out of his Mouth, presented a ludicrous Image of Enjoyment, and 'twas evidently enhanct ...
— Mary Powell & Deborah's Diary • Anne Manning
... threw a handful of mud; the servant jumped up on his perch behind the carriage, which was rapidly driven away by the coachman, but not so fast that Matty could not, by dint of running, keep it "within range" for some seconds, during which time she contrived to pelt both coachman and footman with mud, and leave her mark on their new livery. This was a salutary warning to the old woman, who was more cautious in her demonstrations of grandeur for the future. If she was stinted in the ...
— Handy Andy, Vol. 2 - A Tale of Irish Life • Samuel Lover
... to Abe Storm and tell him I give him leave to take muskrat and mink along Spirit Creek, and that I'll allow him a quarter bounty on every unmarked pelt, and he may keep the ...
— A Young Man in a Hurry - and Other Short Stories • Robert W. Chambers


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