PELT
\pˈɛlt], \pˈɛlt], \p_ˈɛ_l_t]\
Definitions of PELT
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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rain heavily; "Put on your rain coat-- it's pouring outside!"
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attack and bombard with or as if with missiles; "pelt the speaker with questions"
By Princeton University
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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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.
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The human skin.
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The body of any quarry killed by the hawk.
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To strike with something thrown or driven; to assail with pellets or missiles, as, to pelt with stones; pelted with hail.
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To throw missiles.
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To throw out words.
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A blow or stroke from something thrown.
By Oddity Software
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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.
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The human skin.
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The body of any quarry killed by the hawk.
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To strike with something thrown or driven; to assail with pellets or missiles, as, to pelt with stones; pelted with hail.
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To throw missiles.
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To throw out words.
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A blow or stroke from something thrown.
By Noah Webster.
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A blow or stroke from something thrown.
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To use like a pellet; to assail or attack with something thrown or driven; to throw at.
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A kind of buckler.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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A raw hide; the skin of a furbearing animal; a blow from something thrown.
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To strike by throwing something.
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To fall heavily, as rain.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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A raw hide: the quarry or prey of a hawk all torn.
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To strike with pellets, or with something thrown: to throw or cast.
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A blow from a pellet, or from something thrown.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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