pelt : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: pelt	by the DICT Development Group
5 results for pelt
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
pelt n the dressed hairy coat of a mammal Synonym(s): fur, pelt body covering of a living animal Synonym(s): hide, pelt, skin v cast, hurl, or throw repeatedly with some missile; "They pelted each other with snowballs" Synonym(s): pelt, bombard attack and bombard with or as if with missiles; "pelt the speaker with questions" Synonym(s): pepper, pelt rain heavily; "Put on your rain coat-- it's pouring outside!" Synonym(s): pour, pelt, stream, rain cats and dogs, rain buckets
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Pelt \Pelt\, n. [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) The body of any quarry killed by the hawk. {Pelt rot}, a disease affecting the hair or wool of a beast.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Pelt \Pelt\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Pelted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Pelting}.] [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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Pelt \Pelt\, v. i. 1. To throw missiles. --Shak. 2. To throw out words. [Obs.] Another smothered seems to peltand swear. --Shak.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Pelt \Pelt\, n. A blow or stroke from something thrown.