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Pelting   /pˈɛltɪŋ/   Listen
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."


adjective
Pelting  adj.  Mean; paltry. (Obs.)





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"Pelting" Quotes from Famous Books



... dead ox polluted air and water. The Ranger whittled the cottonwood branches for a small chip fire, and he boiled enough water to fill the skin bag for the next day's travel; but a high wind was blowing, restless, nagging, gusty, pelting ash dust in their eyes, and not to lose the trail, they had pressed on through the sweltering heat of mid-day. Wayland's muscles had begun to feel hardened to the dryness of knotted whip cords. His skin had bronzed swarthy as an ...
— The Freebooters of the Wilderness • Agnes C. Laut
... been pelting me, and he pretended to fall; and when I went to help him he struck me, and I ...
— Brownsmith's Boy - A Romance in a Garden • George Manville Fenn
... parson, as he clutched more stoutly the rim of his tall hat, against which, as the horse tore along, the snow chips were pelting in showers, "Deacon Tubman, do you think ...
— How Deacon Tubman and Parson Whitney Kept New Year's - And Other Stories • W. H. H. Murray
... tremor ran through the tug, and there came a chough-choughing in her stack. Immediately followed a great shouting and a frantic pelting of grapnels from the sea below. Madden knew that the Vulcan had at last got under steam, and would probably escape. This came to him dimly as his left hand, which had been struggling to fend off the sword, gradually lost its grip on ...
— The Cruise of the Dry Dock • T. S. Stribling
... about to overtake them at any moment. Crash after crash echoed far above their heads, as the earth came together where it had split, and stones and chunks of clay rattled around them on every side. These they could not see, but they could feel them pelting the buggy top, and Jim screamed almost like a human being when a stone overtook him and struck his boney body. They did not really hurt the poor horse, because everything was falling together; only the stones and rubbish fell faster than the horse and buggy, which were held back by the pressure ...
— Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz • L. Frank Baum.


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