'Pelt' definitions:
Definition of 'pelt'
(from WordNet)
noun
The dressed hairy coat of a mammal [syn: fur, pelt]
noun
verb
Cast, hurl, or throw repeatedly with some missile; "They pelted each other with snowballs" [syn: pelt, bombard]
verb
Attack and bombard with or as if with missiles; "pelt the speaker with questions" [syn: pepper, pelt]
verb
Rain heavily; "Put on your rain coat-- it's pouring outside!" [syn: pour, pelt, stream, rain cats and dogs, rain buckets]
Definition of 'Pelt'
From: 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. [1913 Webster]
- Raw pelts clapped about them for their clothes. --Fuller. [1913 Webster]
- 2. The human skin. [Jocose] --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- 3. (Falconry) The body of any quarry killed by the hawk. [1913 Webster]
- Pelt rot, a disease affecting the hair or wool of a beast. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Pelt'
From: 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. [1913 Webster]
- The chidden billows seem to pelt the clouds. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To throw; to use as a missile. [1913 Webster]
- My Phillis me with pelted apples plies. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Pelt'
From: GCIDE
- Pelt \Pelt\, v. i.
- 1. To throw missiles. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To throw out words. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- Another smothered seems to pelt and swear. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Pelt'
From: GCIDE
- Pelt \Pelt\, n. A blow or stroke from something thrown. [1913 Webster]