Hypertext Webster Gateway: "pelting"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Pelting \Pel"ting\, a.
Mean; paltry. [Obs.] --Shak.
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 WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
pelting
n : anything happening rapidly or in quick successive; "a rain
of bullets"; "a pelting of insults" [syn: {rain}]
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