Definition: pelt

Source: WordNet (r) 1.7

pelt
     n 1: the dressed hairy coat of a mammal [syn: fur]
     2: body covering of a living animal [syn: hide, skin]
     v 1: cast, hurl, or throw repeatedly with some missile; "They
          pelted each other with snowballs" [syn: bombard]
     2: attack with missiles or questions [syn: pepper]
     3: rain heavily; "Put on your rain coat-- it's pouring
        outside!" [syn: pour, stream, rain cats and dogs, rain
        buckets]

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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.

Pelt \Pelt\, v. i.
   1. To throw missiles. --Shak.

   2. To throw out words. [Obs.]

            Another smothered seems to peltand swear. --Shak.

Pelt \Pelt\, n.
   A blow or stroke from something thrown.

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.