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PELTINGLY
Etymology
Adverb
peltingly (comparative more peltingly, superlative most peltingly)
So as to pelt or bombard.
The rain fell peltingly for days.
Source: Wiktionary
PELTING
Pel"ting, a.
Definition: Mean; paltry. [Obs.] Shak.
PELT
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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