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• Pelt — Pelt, v. i. 1. To throw missiles. Shak. [1913 Webster] 2. To throw out words. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] Another smothered seems to peltand swear. Shak. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• pelt — I UK [pelt] / US verb Word forms pelt : present tense I/you/we/they pelt he/she/it pelts present participle pelting past tense pelted past participle pelted 1) [transitive] to throw objects with force at someone or something pelt… …   English dictionary

• pelt — pelt1 [ pelt ] verb 1. ) transitive to throw objects with force at someone or something: pelt someone/something with something: He was shaken but unhurt after being pelted with cans and bottles. 2. ) pelt or pelt down intransitive if rain or snow …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

• pelt — pelt1 [pelt] v [Date: 1400 1500; Origin: Origin unknown] 1.) [T] to attack someone by throwing a lot of things at them pelt sb with sth ▪ The marchers were pelted with rocks and bottles. 2.) [I and T] to be raining very heavily →↑pour ▪ Rain… …   Dictionary of contemporary English

• pelt — 1 verb 1 (T) to attack someone by throwing a lot of things at them: pelt sb with sth: The Senator was pelted with rotten eggs. 2 it is pelting down/it is pelting with rain used to mean that it is raining very heavily 3 (intransitive always +… …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

• pelt —  a skin ; chiefly a sheep s skin when the wool is off. Also, in falconry, the skin of a fowl, stuffed, or the carcase of a dead fowl, to throw out to a hawk. N. and S. Pelt is also used to signify a blow ; as, I hit him a pelt. In old English,… …   A glossary of provincial and local words used in England

• pelt — I verb 1) they pelted him with snowballs Syn: bombard, shower, attack, assail, pepper 2) they said we d get some showers, but it s really pelting down Syn: pour (down), come down, teem (down), stream down, rain cats and dogs …   Thesaurus of popular words

• out — Bowl Bowl, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Bowled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Bowling}.] 1. To roll, as a bowl or cricket ball. [1913 Webster] Break all the spokes and fellies from her wheel, And bowl the round nave down the hill of heaven. Shak. [1913 Webster] 2.… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• pelt — 1. noun a) 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. b) The human skin. See Also: fell …   Wiktionary

• pelt — I v 1. attack, assail, stone, lapidate; riddle, shower, bombard, pepper, Brit. Sl. prang; strafe, shell, torpedo, cannonade, Mil. barrage, fusillade, blitz; batter, beat, beat up, Archaic. belabor; pound, Inf. wallop, lay on, pommel, pummel,… …   A Note on the Style of the synonym finder

• Linus van Pelt — Peanuts character name = Linus van Pelt caption = Linus prepares for the Great Pumpkin s visit age = 7 gender = Male religion = presumably Protestant family = Rerun van Pelt (brother), Lucy van Pelt (sister), Blanket hating grandmother, and… …   Wikipedia