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   pelt

   /pɛlt/

   verb

   • 1. hurl missiles repeatedly at: "two boys pelted him with rotten apples" Similar bombardshowerattackassailbatterpepperstraferakesweepenfiladeblitzthrow atrain something down onfire a broadside atarchaic:cannonadefusillade
   • ▪ hurl (something) at someone or something: "she spotted four boys pelting stones at ducks"
   • ▪ (of rain, hail, or snow) fall quickly and very heavily: "the rain was pelting down" Similar pourteemstreamrain cats and dogsrain hardinformal:bucket downcome down in stair rodsrain stair rods
   • 2. run somewhere very quickly: informal "I pelted across the road" Similar runraceleapsprintdashrushspeedstreakshootwhizzwhooshbuzzzoomflashblastchargestampedechasecareerbustlehareflywingkiteskitedivejumpskipscurryscudscutterscramblehurryhasteninformal:beltscootscorchtearzapzipwhipbombbucketshiftboogiehightailclipvulgar slang:drag/tear/haul assinformal, dated:cut along

   noun

   • 1. an act of hurling something at someone. archaic

   Word Origin late 15th century: of unknown origin.

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   What is the pelt of an animal?

   • The pelt of an animal is its skin, which can be used to make clothing or rugs. ...a bed covered with animal pelts. If you pelt someone with things, you throw things at them. Some of the younger men began to pelt one another with snowballs.

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   What does pelting mean?

   • The act of pelting. A blow. The skin of a fur-bearing animal, esp. after it has been stripped from the carcass. The human skin. The body of any quarry killed by a hawk. To strike or assail repeatedly with thrown objects. Pelted each other with snowballs. To throw things at; strike with or as with missiles. To rush or hurry.

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   What does it mean if you Pelt someone with things?

   • If you pelt someone with things, you throw things at them. Some of the younger men began to pelt one another with snowballs. [VERB noun + with] Crowds started to pelt police cars with stones. [VERB noun with noun] If the rain is pelting down, or if it is pelting with rain, it is raining very hard. The rain now was pelting down.

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   What is a pelt in French?

   • From Old French pelette, diminutive of pel (“a skin"), from Latin pellis. Alternatively a contraction of peltry (“skins") from the same Old French and Latin roots. They have a particularly thin pelt with very close wool of minute curl. It cannot be regarded as an economical fur, as the pelt is too delicate to resist hard wear.

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3. dictionary.cambridge.org › dictionary › englishPELT | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary

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   Pelt can be a verb meaning to throw things at someone or something, or to run fast. It can also be a noun meaning the skin and fur of an animal, or running fast. See more meanings, synonyms, antonyms, and examples of pelt.

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   • Pelt Spanish Translation

     PELT translate: piel, tirar, lanzar, correr a toda prisa,...

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