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Pronunciation : Pelt
Part of Speech : n.
Etymology : [Cf. G. pelz a pelt, fur, fr. OF. pelice, F. pelisse (see Pelisse); or perh. shortened fr. peltry.]
Definition : 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)

Defn: The body of any quarry killed by the hawk. Pelt rot, a disease affecting the hair or wool of a beast.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913

Pronunciation : Pelt
Part of Speech : v.
Etymology : [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.]
Definition : 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.

t. [imp. & p. p. Pelted; p. pr. & vb. n. Pelting.]
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913

Pronunciation : Pelt
Part of Speech : v.
Definition : 1. To throw missiles. Shak.

2. To throw out words. [Obs.] Another smothered seems to peltand swear. Shak.

i.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913

Pronunciation : Pelt
Part of Speech : n.
Definition : Defn: A blow or stroke from something thrown.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913