Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Paltry; petty.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A beating or belaboring with missiles, as with stones, snow-balls, etc.
- Mean; paltry; contemptible.
- Assailing with or as with missiles; coming down hard: as, a pelting shower.
- Angry; passionate.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Mean; paltry.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Present participle of
pelt . - adjective obsolete
mean ;paltry
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun anything happening rapidly or in quick successive
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Duncan pulled shut the cover of the companion scuttle, and held on, waiting, the first drops of rain pelting his face, while the Samoset leaped violently ahead, at the same time heeling first to starboard then to port as the gusty pressures caught her winged-out sails.
Bunches of Knuckles 2010
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The fight had become a game, and we took huge delight in pelting him.
CHAPTER VI 2010
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The final two heats of the four-man were run with the temperature near 40 and rain pelting the track through a howling wind.
USATODAY.com - Lange beats Hays for four-man gold at bobsled worlds 2003
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With the rain pelting down, Tennessee's Corey Larkins fumbled the ensuing kickoff away to Florida, but Grossman threw an interception.
NCAA Division I College Football - Florida vs. Tennessee 2002
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With the rain pelting down, Tennessee's Corey Larkins fumbled the ensuing kickoff away to Florida, but Grossman threw an interception.
NCAA Division I College Football - Florida vs. Tennessee 2002
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Duncan pulled shut the cover of the companion scuttle, and held on, waiting, the first drops of rain pelting his face, while the Samoset leaped violently ahead, at the same time heeling first to starboard then to port as the gusty pressures caught her winged-out sails.
Bunches of Knuckles 1913
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The fight had become a game, and we took huge delight in pelting him.
Chapter VI 1906
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She recalls pelting him with a bottle the first time she met him
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As if "pelting" a car whatever that is warrants a personal assault.
Students Pelt Karl Rove In Protest - Videos - WRC Michael Caddell 2007
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The New York Mirror called on audiences to give blackface performers “all the success they deserve—which is a sound and glorious pelting from the stage.”
A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010
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