Pelt
Pelt (pelt) , noun
[Compare German pelz a pelt, fur, from Old French pelice, French pelisse (see Pelisse); or perh. shortened from 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.
Collocations (1)
Pelt rot , a disease affecting the hair or wool of a beast.
Pelt , transitive verb
[Old English pelten, pulten, pilten, to thrust, throw, strike; compare Latin pultare, equiv. to pulsare (v. freq. from pellere to drive), and English 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 chidden billows seem to pelt the clouds.
2.
To throw; to use as a missile.
My Phillis me with pelted apples plies.
Pelt , intransitive verb
1.
To throw missiles. — Shakespeare
2.
To throw out words. [Obsolete]
Another smothered seems to pelt and swear.
Pelt , noun
A blow or stroke from something thrown.