Noun
body covering of a living animal

Noun
the dressed hairy coat of a mammal

Verb
attack and bombard with or as if with missiles; "pelt the speaker with questions"

Verb
cast, hurl, or throw repeatedly with some missile; "They pelted each other with snowballs"

Verb
rain heavily; "Put on your rain coat-- it''s pouring outside!"

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n.
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.

n.
The human skin.

n.
The body of any quarry killed by the hawk.

v. t.
To strike with something thrown or driven; to assail with pellets or missiles, as, to pelt with stones; pelted with hail.

v. t.
To throw; to use as a missile.

v. i.
To throw missiles.

v. i.
To throw out words.

n.
A blow or stroke from something thrown.

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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.

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.

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.

2. To throw; to use as a missile.

My Phillis me with pelted apples plies.

Pelt

Pelt, v. i. 1. To throw missiles. Shak. 2. To throw out words. [Obs.]

Another smothered seems to peltand swear.

Pelt

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

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.

To strike with something thrown or driven; to assail with pellets or missiles, as, to pelt with stones; pelted with hail.

To throw missiles.

A blow or stroke from something thrown.