'Pelting' definitions:
Definition of 'pelting'
(from WordNet)
noun
Anything happening rapidly or in quick successive; "a rain of bullets"; "a pelting of insults" [syn: rain, pelting]
Definition of 'Pelting'
From: GCIDE
- Pelting \Pel"ting\, a. Mean; paltry. [Obs.] --Shak. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Pelting'
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]