Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The skin of an animal with the fur or hair still on it.
- noun A stripped animal skin ready for tanning.
- intransitive verb To strike or assail repeatedly with thrown objects: synonym: barrage.
- intransitive verb Archaic To strike (someone) with blows, as with a club.
- intransitive verb To hurl or throw (missiles).
- intransitive verb To fall upon; strike repeatedly.
- intransitive verb To fall heavily or abundantly; beat.
- intransitive verb To move at a vigorous gait.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The skin of a beast with the hair on it, especially of one of the smaller animals used in furriery; specifically, a fur-skin dried but not prepared for use as fur; a raw hide: sometimes applied to a garment made from such a skin.
- noun The mangled quarry of a hawk; the dead body of a bird killed by a hawk.
- noun Soft leather used for covering inking-pelds.
- noun Synonyms Hide, etc. See skin.
- To skin; fleece; pluck the pelt from.
- noun A blow or stroke from something thrown.
- noun Rage; anger; passion.
- To push; thrust.
- To assail with missiles; assail or strike with something thrown.
- To throw; cast; hurl.
- To throw missiles.
- To fall or descend (on one) with violence or persistency: as, a pelting rain.
- To proceed rapidly and without intermission; hurry on: as, the horses pelted along at a fine pace.
- To bandy words; use abusive language; be in a passion.
- To submit; become paltry.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To strike with something thrown or driven; to assail with pellets or missiles
- transitive verb To throw; to use as a missile.
- intransitive verb To throw missiles.
- intransitive verb obsolete To throw out words.
- noun A blow or stroke from something thrown.
- noun 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 . - noun Jocose The human skin.
- noun (Falconry) The body of any quarry killed by the hawk.
- noun a disease affecting the hair or wool of a beast.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The
skin of abeast with thehair on; araw or undressedhide ; a skinpreserved with the hairy orwoolly covering on it. - noun The
body of anyquarry killed by ahawk . - noun humorous Human skin.
- verb transitive To
bombard , as withmissiles . - verb intransitive To
rain orhail heavily . - verb To throw out words.
- verb transitive To
beat orhit , especially repeatedly. - verb To move rapidly, especially in or on a
conveyance . - noun A blow or stroke from something thrown.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb attack and bombard with or as if with missiles
- verb cast, hurl, or throw repeatedly with some missile
- verb rain heavily
- noun body covering of a living animal
- noun the dressed hairy coat of a mammal
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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The fact that not only compounds already existing may convert pelt into leather, but that a similar effect is obtained _inside the pelt_, by their components, is indeed of theoretical interest.
Synthetic Tannins Georg Grasser
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The pelt is rather pretty if you're into killing stuff for that reason (and I don't).
I hate to put down another shooter's game, but we've already broken the ice with canned hunts. 2009
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The pelt is rather pretty if you're into killing stuff for that reason (and I don't).
I hate to put down another shooter's game, but we've already broken the ice with canned hunts. 2009
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Yer second pelt is goin to be with a crate of rotten tomaters.
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One of Koon's students tested the claim and found it wanting ( "The optical loss ... 2 decibels per mm ... essentially eliminates the possibility that the polar bear's pelt is behaving like an optical fiber in order to transmit light to the bear's skin for conversion to heat").
Fibre optics - the bear facts Ray Girvan 2004
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One of Koon's students tested the claim and found it wanting ( "The optical loss ... 2 decibels per mm ... essentially eliminates the possibility that the polar bear's pelt is behaving like an optical fiber in order to transmit light to the bear's skin for conversion to heat").
Archive 2004-04-01 Ray Girvan 2004
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The fairy might steal a pelt from the trapper's supply; that would certainly keep him warm; and if he were anything of a tailor he could make himself a cap and a coat in no time.
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And, though I was now nearsighted and colorblind, my nose gave me a worldful of smells, my ears captured sounds a man never hears, every hair on my pelt was a feeler feeding into my nerves.
Operation Luna Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1999
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His legs, stomach, chest, and upper back were covered with a coarse brown hair that was not enough to be called a pelt, but not far from it.
The Clan of the Cave Bear Auel, Jean M. 1980
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The pelt, which is unaltered by the hydroquinone bath, on being removed from the latter, and in the presence of alkali, assumes a red colour at first, which changes into violet, blue, and finally brown, the pelt being thereby converted into a quinone-tanned leather.
Synthetic Tannins Georg Grasser
bilby commented on the word pelt
See also etymology on fight.
January 17, 2020