From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [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.
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The chidden billows seem to pelt the clouds. --Shak.
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2. To throw; to use as a missile.
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My Phillis me with pelted apples plies. --Dryden.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Pelt \Pelt\, v. i.
1. To throw missiles. --Shak.
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2. To throw out words. [Obs.]
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Another smothered seems to pelt and swear. --Shak.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Pelt \Pelt\, n.
A blow or stroke from something thrown.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [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.
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Raw pelts clapped about them for their clothes.
--Fuller.
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2. The human skin. [Jocose] --Dryden.
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3. (Falconry) The body of any quarry killed by the hawk.
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Pelt rot, a disease affecting the hair or wool of a beast.
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
pelt
n 1: the dressed hairy coat of a mammal [syn: fur, pelt]
2: body covering of a living animal [syn: hide, pelt,
skin]
v 1: cast, hurl, or throw repeatedly with some missile; "They
pelted each other with snowballs" [syn: pelt, bombard]
2: attack and bombard with or as if with missiles; "pelt the
speaker with questions" [syn: pepper, pelt]
3: rain heavily; "Put on your rain coat-- it's pouring outside!"
[syn: pour, pelt, stream, rain cats and dogs, {rain
buckets}]