pelt
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English [edit]
Etymology 1 [edit]
From Old French pelette, diminutive of pel (“a skin”), from Latin pellis. Alternatively a contraction of peltry (“skins”) from the same Old French and Latin roots.
Pronunciation [edit]
- Rhymes: -ɛlt
Noun [edit]
pelt (plural pelts)
- 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.
- The body of any quarry killed by a hawk.
- (humorous) Human skin.
Translations [edit]
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
human skin — See also translations at : skin
the body of any quarry killed by the hawk
Related terms [edit]
Etymology 2 [edit]
Possible contraction of pellet
Verb [edit]
pelt (third-person singular simple present pelts, present participle pelting, simple past and past participle pelted)
- (transitive) To bombard, as with missiles.
- They pelted the attacking army with bullets.
- (intransitive) To rain or hail heavily.
- It's pelting down out there!
- To throw out words.
- (transitive) To beat or hit, especially repeatedly.
- To move rapidly, especially in or on a conveyance.
- The boy pelted down the hill on his toboggan.
Translations [edit]
to bombard
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to rain heavily
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Noun [edit]
pelt (plural pelts)
- A blow or stroke from something thrown.
Anagrams [edit]
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
Dutch [edit]
Verb [edit]
pelt
- second- and third-person singular present indicative of pellen
- plural imperative of pellen
