From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Pelt \Pelt\ (p[e^]lt), noun [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 The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Pelt \Pelt\, verb (used with an object) [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 The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Pelt \Pelt\, verb (used without an object)
Another smothered seems to peltand swear. --Shak.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Pelt \Pelt\, noun A blow or stroke from something thrown.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
noun
1: the dressed hairy coat of a mammal [syn: {fur}]
2: body covering of a living animal [syn: {hide}, {skin}]
verb
1: cast, hurl, or throw repeatedly with some missile; "They pelted each other with snowballs" [syn: {bombard}]
2: attack and bombard with or as if with missiles; "pelt the speaker with questions" [syn: {pepper}]
3: rain heavily; "Put on your rain coat-- it's pouring outside!" [syn: {pour}, {stream}, {rain cats and dogs}, {rain buckets}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
262 Moby Thesaurus words for "pelt": Australian seal, Leatherette, Leatheroid, assail, assault, attack, bang, barrel, bash, baste, bat, batter, bearskin, beat, beating, beaver, beaverette, beeline, belabor, belt, biff, black fox, black marten, black sable, blow, bomb, bombard, bonk, bowl, brickbat, bristle, brook mink, buckskin, buffet, calf, calfskin, capeskin, capillament, cast, cat, catapult, charge, chinchilla, chinchillette, chop, chuck, chunk, cilium, clip, clobber, clout, clump, coast seal, coat, cock, come down, coney, cowhide, crack, cut, cuticle, dart, dash, deerskin, dermis, detonate, dig, dint, discharge, doeskin, drizzle, drop, drub, drubbing, drum, drumming, egg, eject, electric seal, ermine, fall, fell, fire, fire off, flail, flap, fleece, fleet, flesh, fling, flip, fly, fork, fox, fur, furring, furs, fusillade, genet, goatskin, gun, gun for, hair, heave, hide, highball, hit, horsehair, hotfoot, hurl, hurry, hurtle, imitation fur, imitation leather, integument, jab, jacket, jaguar, jerk, knock, lambaste, lance, lapidate, lapin, larrup, launch, lay about, leather, leather paper, leopard, let fly, let off, lick, load, lob, mane, marmot, marten, maul, merino, mink, mizzle, mole, moleskin, monkey, muskrat, nutria, otter, outer layer, outer skin, pass, paste, patter, peg, pellet, peltry, pelts, pepper, pick off, pigskin, pile, pistol, pitch, pitchfork, pitter-patter, plug, plunk, poke, pommel, pot, potshoot, potshot, pound, pour, pour with rain, precipitate, prime, pubescence, pubic hair, pulverize, pummel, punch, put, put the shot, rabbit, rabbitskin, raccoon, rain, rain tadpoles, rap, rawhide, riddle, rind, run, rush, sable, scoot, scurry, seal, serve, setula, shag, shagreen, sheath, sheepskin, shell, shoot, shoot at, shoot down, shower, shower down, shy, skin, skins, skunk, slam, slap, sledgehammer, sling, slog, slug, smack, smash, snap, snipe, sock, spank, spatter, spit, sprinkle, squirrel, stone, strafe, stream, strike, stroke, swat, swing, swipe, take a potshot, tattoo, teem, tegument, thrash, thresh, throw, thump, thwack, tiger, tilt, torpedo, toss, vair, wallop, weep, whack, whip, white fox, whop, wool, work over, yerk
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