pelt
See also: Pelt
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English[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
Borrowed 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.
- 1879, Richard Jefferies, The Amateur Poacher, chapter1:
- They burned the old gun that used to stand in the dark corner up in the garret, close to the stuffed fox that always grinned so fiercely. Perhaps the reason why he seemed in such a ghastly rage was that he did not come by his death fairly. Otherwise his pelt would not have been so perfect. And why else was he put away up there out of sight?—and so magnificent a brush as he had too. […].
- 1879, Richard Jefferies, The Amateur Poacher, chapter1:
- The body of any quarry killed by a hawk.
- (humorous) Human skin.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Dryden to this entry?)
Related terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
skin of a beast with the hair on
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body of quarry killed by a hawk
human skin — See also translations at skin
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.
- (transitive) To throw; to use as a missile.
- The children pelted apples at us.
- (intransitive) To rain or hail heavily.
- It's pelting down out there!
- (intransitive) To throw out words.
- Shakespeare
- Another smothered seems to pelt and swear.
- Shakespeare
- (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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to move rapidly
Noun[edit]
pelt (plural pelts)
- A blow or stroke from something thrown.
- 2013, Karen-Anne Stewart, Healing Rain (page 134)
- Kas is awakened by the furious pelts of rain hitting the tin roof, and he rolls over, pulling his sleeping wife tightly into his arms.
- 2013, Karen-Anne Stewart, Healing Rain (page 134)
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.
(See the entry for pelt in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)
Anagrams[edit]
Dutch[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
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Verb[edit]
pelt
- second- and third-person singular present indicative of pellen
- (archaic) plural imperative of pellen
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- Webster 1913
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