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pelt

1

[ pelt ]

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)

  1. to strike blows; beat with force or violence.
  2. to throw missiles.
  3. to hurry.
  4. to beat or pound unrelentingly:

    The wind, rain, and snow pelted against the castle walls.

  5. to cast abuse.

noun

  1. the act of pelting.
  2. a vigorous stroke; whack.
  3. a blow with something thrown.
  4. running at full pelt.

  5. an unrelenting or repeated beating, as of rain or wind.

pelt

2

[ pelt ]

noun

  1. the untanned hide or skin of an animal.
  2. Facetious. the human skin.

pelt

1

/ pɛlt /

noun

  1. the skin of a fur-bearing animal, such as a mink, esp when it has been removed from the carcass
  2. the hide of an animal, stripped of hair and ready for tanning


pelt

2

/ pɛlt /

verb

  1. tr to throw (missiles) at (a person)
  2. tr to hurl (insults) at (a person)
  3. intr; foll by along, over, etc to move rapidly; hurry
  4. introften foll bydown to rain heavily

noun

  1. a blow
  2. speed (esp in the phrase at full pelt )

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Derived Forms

  • ˈpelter, noun

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Other Words From

  • un·pelted adjective

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Word History and Origins

Origin of pelt1

First recorded in 1490–1500; Middle English pilten, pelten; further origin uncertain

Origin of pelt2

First recorded in 1275–1325; Middle English; perhaps back formation from peltry; compare Old French pelete, derivative of Latin pellis “skin”

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Word History and Origins

Origin of pelt1

C15: perhaps back formation from peltry

Origin of pelt2

C15: of uncertain origin, perhaps from pellet

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Idioms and Phrases

Idioms
  1. in one's pelt, Facetious. naked ( def 1 ).

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Synonym Study

See skin.

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Example Sentences

Wisconsin is the country’s top producer of mink pelts, yielding 38 percent of the United States’ total.

Others are draped in wool scarves and nice blankets, presenting a far more conventional and even upper-class vibe than the viral images of young men costumed with animal horns and pelts.

Aaron Mostofsky, who was photographed wearing multiple fur pelts and a vest that said “police” on it, and carrying a police riot shield as well as a large stick, was hard to miss.

From Vox

The reverse — cats and dogs infecting us — does not appear to occur, though it does happen in mink, which are often farmed for their pelts and thus interact with humans.

From Ozy

Lately, they’ve delivered plenty of pelts from publicly traded Goliaths, powered by meticulously reported jeremiads whose details rocket across social media and the business press.

From Fortune

It was the first time that a Chinese public official acknowledged the existence of the tiger pelt trade within the country.

In a way, the print emphasizes the pelt-like nature of all images, as they flatten out the world and hand it over to us.

I recently saw this pelt-of-a-print by Swiss artist Michael Günzburger at Winkleman Gallery in Chelsea.

Every sort of pelt, skin, or plumage was part of this collection.

I was to Spoutin' Springs, twenty mile west, with a bale o' blue fox an' otter pelt.

Wishing to have a bell to hang in the tower of this chapel, each convert brought a pelt, and the bell was ordered from France.

He had gone to Double Up Cove for the silver fox pelt, and he had it.

And sometimes they would even pelt the old horse Ebenezer, who stood in the stall next to Twinkleheels.

Why should a hairy pelt and a relatively low intelligence make a chimp non-human?

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