Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who or that which pelts.
- noun A shower of missiles; a storm, as of falling rain, hailstones, etc.
- noun A passion; a fit of anger.
- noun A dealer in skins or hides; a skinner.
- noun A mean, sordid person; a pinchpenny.
- noun A fool.
- noun In poker, a hand which has no card higher than a nine and no chance for a flush or straight: sometimes called Chicago pelter. Also, kilter.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who pelts.
- noun obsolete A pinchpenny; a mean, sordid person; a miser; a skinflint.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
pinchpenny ; amean ,sordid person; amiser ; askinflint .
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- noun a heavy rain
- noun a thrower of missiles
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Examples
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Mary Jane and I have been wet through once already to-day; we set off in the donkey-carriage for Farringdon, as I wanted to see the improvements Mr. Woolls is making, but we were obliged to turn back before we got there, but not soon enough to avoid a pelter all the way home.
Jane Austen, Her Life and Letters A Family Record Richard Arthur Austen-Leigh
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A tremendous storm brewing to windward, cut short our intended drive; and, putting the nags to their best pace, we barely succeeded in obtaining shelter ere it burst upon us; and such a pelter as it came down, who ever saw?
Lands of the Slave and the Free Cuba, the United States, and Canada Henry A. Murray
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Colonel Boone had but to hear him out and bare his shoulders for such other blows which Judge Wright sought to pelter him, and we will hear with what blow he was driven from his post as Indian Agent.
The Second William Penn A true account of incidents that happened along the old Santa Fe Trail William H. Ryus
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Rome would be the gainer by it if her very constables were elected to serve a century; for in our experience we have never even been able to choose a dog-pelter without celebrating the event with a dozen knockdowns and a general cramming of the station-house with drunken vagabonds overnight.
Sketches New And Old Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 1922
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Long-faced, lantern-jawed old pelter, with a face like a coffin – they're the kind you have to look out for; they'd go through you like an electric shock!
The Second Chance 1910
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Long-faced, lantern-jawed old pelter, with a face like a coffin -- they're the kind you have to look out for; they'd go through you like an electric shock!
The Second Chance Nellie L. McClung 1912
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Sketching is always a peltable or mobable offence, as being contrary to the Koran, and sitting down tempts the pelter.
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This is the world of the bully and the brigand and assassin, the world of the mud-pelter and brawler, the world of the bent woman, the world of the flea and the fly, the open drain and the baying dog.
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"Do not pelter with me, sirrah! but tell me what this imports."
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Rome would be the gainer by it if her very constables were elected to serve a century; for in our experience we have never even been able to choose a dog-pelter without celebrating the event with a dozen knockdowns and a general cramming of the station-house with drunken vagabonds overnight.
Sketches New and Old Mark Twain 1872
ruzuzu commented on the word pelter
"2. A shower of missiles; a storm, as of falling rain, hailstones, etc."
--Century Dictionary
September 9, 2010
vinks commented on the word pelter
Colonel Boone was a pelter himself, the evidence for which he wore on his own head!
December 30, 2010