pelt
- pelt
- [[t]pe̱lt[/t]]
pelts, pelting, pelted
1) N-COUNT: usu pl The pelt of an animal is its skin, which can be used to make clothing or rugs.
...a bed covered with beaver pelts.
...rapidly diminishing suppliers of furs and pelts.
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2)
VERB If you
pelt someone
with things, you throw things at them.
[V n with n] Some of the younger men began to pelt one another with snowballs...
[V n with n] Crowds started to pelt police cars with stones.
3)
VERB: usu
cont If the rain
is pelting down, or if
it is pelting with rain, it is raining very hard. [INFORMAL]
[V adv] The rain now was pelting down...
[it V with n] It's pelting with rain...
[V-ing] We drove through pelting rain.
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4) VERB If you pelt somewhere, you run there very fast. [INFORMAL]
[V prep] Without thinking, she pelted down the stairs in her nightgown.
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5)
PHRASE: PHR after
v If you do something
full pelt or
at full pelt, you do it very quickly indeed. [INFORMAL]
Alice leapt from the car and ran full pelt towards the emergency room...
He drove his car through the gates at full pelt.
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pelt — Ⅰ. pelt [1] ► VERB 1) hurl missiles at. 2) (pelt down) (chiefly of rain) fall very heavily. 3) run very quickly. ● (at) full pelt Cf. ↑full pelt … English terms dictionary
pelt — pelt1 [pelt] vt. [LME pelten < ? pelote,PELLET] 1. to throw things at; strike with or as with missiles 2. to beat or pound heavily and repeatedly 3. to throw or cast (missiles) vi. 1. to beat or strike heavily or steadily, as hard rain … English World dictionary
Pelt — (p[e^]lt), 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… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
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… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Pelt — ist der Familienname folgender Personen: Anton Friedrich Ludwig Pelt (1799–1861), deutscher evangelischer Theologe Jeremy Pelt (* 1976), US amerikanischer Jazz Trompeter und Flügelhornist Siehe auch: Van Pelt … Deutsch Wikipedia
pelt — pelt; pelt·er; pelt·ing; uro·pelt; … English syllables
Pelt — may refer to: *Fur or pelage, the hair, fur or wool that covers an animal s skin, that has been stripped off the animal. *Pelt (band), a rock/drone band created by Jack Rose * a Dutch name, as in UN diplomat Adrian Pelt … Wikipedia
pelt — [pelt] verb I 1) [T] to throw a lot of things at someone or something Some of the players were pelted with cans and bottles.[/ex] 2) [I] to run somewhere very fast II noun [C] pelt [pelt] the skin or fur of an animal … Dictionary for writing and speaking English
Pelt — Pelt, v. i. 1. To throw missiles. Shak. [1913 Webster] 2. To throw out words. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] Another smothered seems to peltand swear. Shak. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Pelt — Pelt, n. A blow or stroke from something thrown. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
pelt — [n] animal fur coat, epidermis, fell, hair, hide, jacket, skin, slough, wool; concept 399 pelt [v] beat; throw hard assail, batter, belabor, belt, bombard, career, cast, charge, dash, hammer, hurl, knock, lapidate, pepper, pound, pour, pummel,… … New thesaurus
