Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Pelt"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.
The children billows seem to pelt the clouds.
--Shak.
2. To throw; to use as a missile.
My Phillis me with pelted apples plies. --Dryden.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Pelt \Pelt\, v. i.
1. To throw missiles. --Shak.
2. To throw out words. [Obs.]
Another smothered seems to peltand swear. --Shak.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Pelt \Pelt\, n.
A blow or stroke from something thrown.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Pelt \Pelt\, 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.
Raw pelts clapped about them for their clothes.
--Fuller.
2. The human skin. [Jocose] --Dryden.
3. (Falconry) The body of any quarry killed by the hawk.
{Pelt rot}, a disease affecting the hair or wool of a beast.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
pelt
n 1: the dressed hairy coat of a mammal [syn: {fur}]
2: body covering of a living animal [syn: {hide}, {skin}]
v 1: cast, hurl, or throw repeatedly with some missile; "They
pelted each other with snowballs" [syn: {bombard}]
2: attack with missiles or questions [syn: {pepper}]
3: rain heavily; "Put on your rain coat-- it's pouring
outside!" [syn: {pour}, {stream}, {rain cats and dogs}, {rain
buckets}]
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