Pelt
[pelt] or [pɛlt]
Definition
(verb.) cast, hurl, or throw repeatedly with some missile; 'They pelted each other with snowballs'.
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Definition
(n.) 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.
(n.) The human skin.
(n.) The body of any quarry killed by the hawk.
(v. t.) To strike with something thrown or driven; to assail with pellets or missiles, as, to pelt with stones; pelted with hail.
(v. t.) To throw; to use as a missile.
(v. i.) To throw missiles.
(v. i.) To throw out words.
(n.) A blow or stroke from something thrown.
Editor: Omar
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Skin (of a beast with the hair on it), hide.
v. a. Strike (with something thrown), beat, batter, assail with missiles.
Inputed by Bartholomew
Definition
v.t. to strike with something thrown: to cast.—v.i. to fall heavily as rain.—n. a blow from something thrown.—ns. Pel′ter a shower of missiles a sharp storm of rain &c.: a storm of anger; Pel′ting an assault with a pellet or with anything thrown.
n. a raw hide: the quarry or prey of a hawk all torn.—ns. Pelt′monger a dealer in skins; Pelt′ry the skins of animals with the fur on them: furs.
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Examples
- Will somebody hand me anything hard and bruising to pelt at her? Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Deftly he removed the great pelt, for he had practiced often on smaller animals. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- The invention of printing machines was preceded by the manufacture of inking rollers, to supersede the pelt balls for distributing the ink over the types. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- Upon my word, I think the truth is the hardest missile one can be pelted with. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- The sun so pelted us that the tears ran down our cheeks once or twice. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- And that if you got pelted, interposed Mrs. Cadwallader, half the rotten eggs would mean hatred of your committee-man. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Mas'r and Tom pelted the poor drowning creature with stones. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Think what it must be to be pelted for wrong opinions. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- You will make a Saturday pie of all parties' opinions, and be pelted by everybody. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- There came, when they were about midway on their journey, a heavy rush of hail, which in a few minutes pelted the streets clear, and whitened them. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Pelting is nothing to their finding holes in one's coat, said the Rector. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- He said if Brooke wanted a pelting, he could get it cheaper than by going to the hustings. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- The back of our carriage was drawn up, and I hung a pelisse before it, thus to curtain the beloved sufferer from the pelting sleet. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- 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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