Definition: pelting

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Source: WordNet (r) 1.7 

pelting
     n : anything happening rapidly or in quick successive; "a rain
         of bullets"; "a pelting of insults" [syn: rain]

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) 

Pelting \Pel"ting\, a.
   Mean; paltry. [Obs.] --Shak.
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.