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Webster 1913 Edition

Pelt

Pelt

(pĕlt)
,
Noun.
[Cf. G.
pelz
a pelt, fur, fr. OF.
pelice
, F.
pelisse
(see
Pelisse
); or perh. shortened fr.
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.
Fuller.
2.
The human skin.
[Jocose]
Dryden.
3.
(Falconry)
The body of any quarry killed by the hawk.
Pelt rot
,
a disease affecting the hair or wool of a beast.

Pelt

,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Pelted
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Pelting
.]
[OE.
pelten
,
pulten
,
pilten
, to thrust, throw, strike; cf. L.
pultare
, equiv. to
pulsare
(v. freq. fr.
pellere
to drive), and E.
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.
Shakespeare
2.
To throw; to use as a missile.
My Phillis me with
pelted
apples plies.
Dryden.

Pelt

,
Verb.
I.
1.
To throw missiles.
Shak.
2.
To throw out words.
[Obs.]
Another smothered seems to
pelt
and swear.
Shakespeare

Pelt

,
Noun.
A blow or stroke from something thrown.

Webster 1828 Edition

Pelt

PELT

,
Noun.
[L. pellis.]
1.
The skin of a beast with the hair on it; a raw hide.
2.
The quarry of a hawk all torn.
3.
A blow or stroke from something thrown. [infra.]

PELT

,
Verb.
T.
[L. pello.]
1.
Properly, to strike with something thrown, driven or falling; as, to pelt with stones; pelted with hail.
The chiding billows seem to pelt the clouds.
2.
To drive by throwing something.

Definition 2024

pelt

pelt

English

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -ɛlt

Noun

pelt ‎(plural pelts)

  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.
    • 1879, Richard Jefferies, The Amateur Poacher, chapter1:
      They burned the old gun that used to stand in the dark corner up in the garret, close to the stuffed fox that always grinned so fiercely. Perhaps the reason why he seemed in such a ghastly rage was that he did not come by his death fairly. Otherwise his pelt would not have been so perfect. And why else was he put away up there out of sight?—and so magnificent a brush as he had too. […].
  2. The body of any quarry killed by a hawk.
  3. (humorous) Human skin.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Dryden to this entry?)
Translations
body of quarry killed by a hawk
Related terms

Etymology 2

Possible contraction of pellet

Verb

pelt ‎(third-person singular simple present pelts, present participle pelting, simple past and past participle pelted)

  1. (transitive) To bombard, as with missiles.
    They pelted the attacking army with bullets.
  2. (transitive) To throw; to use as a missile.
    The children pelted apples at us.
  3. (intransitive) To rain or hail heavily.
    It's pelting down out there!
  4. (intransitive) To throw out words.
    • Shakespeare
      Another smothered seems to pelt and swear.
  5. (transitive) To beat or hit, especially repeatedly.
  6. To move rapidly, especially in or on a conveyance.
    The boy pelted down the hill on his toboggan.
Translations

Noun

pelt ‎(plural pelts)

  1. A blow or stroke from something thrown.

Anagrams

Dutch

Pronunciation

Verb

pelt

  1. second- and third-person singular present indicative of pellen
  2. (archaic) plural imperative of pellen

Etymology

From Old French pelette, diminutive of pel ‎(“a skin”), from Latin pellis. Alternatively a contraction of peltry ‎(“skins”) from the same Old French and Latin roots.

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