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verb (used with object)
1.
to attack or assail with repeated blows or with missiles.
2.
to throw (missiles).
3.
to drive by blows or missiles: The child pelted the cows home from the fields.
4.
to assail vigorously with words, questions, etc.
5.
to beat or rush against with repeated forceful blows: The wind and rain pelted the roofs and walls of the houses for four days.
verb (used without object)
6.
to strike blows; beat with force or violence.
7.
to throw missiles.
8.
to hurry.
9.
to beat or pound unrelentingly: The wind, rain, and snow pelted against the castle walls.
10.
to cast abuse.
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Pelt
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noun
11.
the act of pelting.
12.
a vigorous stroke; whack.
13.
a blow with something thrown.
14.
15.
an unrelenting or repeated beating, as of rain or wind.
Origin:
1490–1500; origin uncertain
1490–1500; origin uncertain
Related forms
un·pelt·ed, adjective
Example Sentences
- Falling rain, leaf shadows, the bloodied pelt of an arrowed monkey-all appear dipped in shivery tones of silver.
- And you are issued a faux leopard pelt to keep warm.
- The awestruck musicians pelt him with questions about life in heaven.
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noun
Idiom1.
the untanned hide or skin of an animal.
2.
Facetious. the human skin.
3.
in one's pelt, Facetious. naked.
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Word Origin & History
pelt
"to strike" (with something), c.1500, perhaps from an unrecorded O.E. *pyltan, from M.L. *pultiare, from L. pultare "to beat." Or from O.Fr. peloter "to strike with a ball," from pelote "ball" (see pellet).
EXPANDpelt
"skin of a fur-bearing animal," 1425, related to earlier pel (c.1300), contraction of pelet, from O.Fr. pelete "fine skin, membrane," dim. of pel "skin," from L. pellis "skin, hide."
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