Pelts
[pelts]
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. pl. Skins (as above), peltry, hides.
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Examples
- Originally no doubt, and for untold centuries, the use was confined to the hairy, undressed, fresh, or dried skins, known as pelts. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- The types, placed upon a flat stone embedded in a movable table, were inked with large soft balls covered with pelts. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- These skins they prepared with skill and elaboration, and towards the end of the age they used bone needles, no doubt to sew these pelts. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Earl Stanhope had endeavoured in vain to construct inking rollers, for which purpose he tried skins and pelts of various kinds, but the seam proved an obstacle that he could not overcome. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- Before the advent of the American, the medium of exchange between the Indian and the white man was pelts. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
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