pelt Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun the dressed hairy coat of a mammal
    fur.
  2. noun body covering of a living animal
    hide; skin.
  3. verb cast, hurl, or throw repeatedly with some missile
    bombard.
    • They pelted each other with snowballs
  4. verb attack and bombard with or as if with missiles
    pepper.
    • pelt the speaker with questions
  5. verb rain heavily
    rain cats and dogs; rain buckets; stream; pour.
    • Put on your rain coat-- it's pouring outside!

WordNet

Pelt noun
Etymology
Cf. G. pelz a pelt, fur, fr. OF. pelice, F. pelisse (see Pelisse); or perh. shortened fr. peltry.
Definitions
  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 transitive verb
Etymology
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.
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Pelted; present participle & verbal noun Pelting
Definitions
  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.
Pelt intransitive verb
Definitions
  1. To throw missiles. Shak.
  2. To throw out words. Obs.
    Another smothered seems to peltand swear. Shak.
Pelt noun
Definitions
  1. A blow or stroke from something thrown.

Webster 1913