PELT

hide, pelt, skin

(noun) body covering of a living animal

fur, pelt

(noun) the dressed hairy coat of a mammal

pepper, pelt

(verb) attack and bombard with or as if with missiles; “pelt the speaker with questions”

pelt, bombard

(verb) cast, hurl, or throw repeatedly with some missile; “They pelted each other with snowballs”

pour, pelt, stream, rain cats and dogs, rain buckets

(verb) rain heavily; “Put on your rain coat-- it’s pouring outside!”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology 1

Noun

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.

Etymology 2

Possible contraction of pellet

Verb

pelt (third-person singular simple present pelts, present participle pelting, simple past and past participle pelted)

(transitive) To bombard, as with missiles.

(transitive) To throw; to use as a missile.

(intransitive) To rain or hail heavily.

(transitive) To beat or hit, especially repeatedly.

(intransitive) To move rapidly, especially in or on a conveyance.

(intransitive, obsolete) To throw out words.

Noun

pelt (plural pelts)

A blow or stroke from something thrown.

Anagrams

• -lept, lept, lept-

Proper noun

Pelt (plural Pelts)

A surname.

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Pelt is the 14392^nd most common surname in the United States, belonging to 2077 individuals. Pelt is most common among White (65.29%) and Black/African American (25.37%) individuals.

Anagrams

• -lept, lept, lept-

Source: Wiktionary

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Pelt, n. Etym: [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)

Definition: The body of any quarry killed by the hawk. Pelt rot, a disease affecting the hair or wool of a beast.

Pelt, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Pelted; p. pr. & vb. n. Pelting.] Etym: [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.

Pelt, v. i.

1. To throw missiles. Shak.

2. To throw out words. [Obs.] Another smothered seems to peltand swear. Shak.

Pelt, n.

Definition: A blow or stroke from something thrown.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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