pelt

pelt
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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, thrash, trounce, Sl. paste, Sl. clobber; maul, manhandle, rough up, Sl. knock around or about; Sl. work over, Sl. give one the works; smite, hit, strike, slap, smack, cuff, buffer; punch, Inf. slug, whack, Sl. belt.
2. throw, heave, fling, cast, throw, propel; toss, hurl, sling, catapult, launch; dart, Brit. Sl. bung, fire, shoot, let sail or fly; dash, chuck, peg, send, pitch, put, lance, bowl.
3. revile, vituperate, abuse, lash, lash out at, rail against, inveigh against; light into, Inf. sail into, Inf. tear into, Inf. rip into, Inf. lace into, Inf. jump down [s.o.'s] throat, Archaic. clapperclaw; scold, tongue-lash, rate, harangue, rant; curse, execrate, imprecate, anathematize; upbraid, objurgate, excoriate, lambaste, flay, fulminate against; castigate, chastise, berate, censure, criticize, reproach, rebuke, reprove, Inf. jump on, Inf. dress down, Inf. slam, Sl. jump all-over, Sl. strafe.
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4. whack, hard hit, bang, bump, thump; blow, bastinado, punch, box; Inf. wallop, Inf. whomp, cuff, thwack, slap, smack, Inf. clout; beating, battering, pounding, Sl. pasting; thrashing, flogging, lashing, switching; scourging, flagellation, whipping.
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animal skin, animal hide, skin, hide; fleece, wool, fur, fell, coat.

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(of a beast with the hair on it), , , / (with something thrown), , , , / , ,


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  • pelt — Ⅰ. pelt [1] ► VERB 1) hurl missiles at. 2) (pelt down) (chiefly of rain) fall very heavily. 3) run very quickly. ● (at) full pelt Cf. ↑full pelt …   English terms dictionary

  • pelt — pelt1 [pelt] vt. [LME pelten < ? pelote,PELLET] 1. to throw things at; strike with or as with missiles 2. to beat or pound heavily and repeatedly 3. to throw or cast (missiles) vi. 1. to beat or strike heavily or steadily, as hard rain …   English World dictionary

  • Pelt — (p[e^]lt), n. [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… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Pelt — Pelt, v. 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… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Pelt — ist der Familienname folgender Personen: Anton Friedrich Ludwig Pelt (1799–1861), deutscher evangelischer Theologe Jeremy Pelt (* 1976), US amerikanischer Jazz Trompeter und Flügelhornist Siehe auch: Van Pelt …   Deutsch Wikipedia

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  • Pelt — may refer to: *Fur or pelage, the hair, fur or wool that covers an animal s skin, that has been stripped off the animal. *Pelt (band), a rock/drone band created by Jack Rose * a Dutch name, as in UN diplomat Adrian Pelt …   Wikipedia

  • pelt — [pelt] verb I 1) [T] to throw a lot of things at someone or something Some of the players were pelted with cans and bottles.[/ex] 2) [I] to run somewhere very fast II noun [C] pelt [pelt] the skin or fur of an animal …   Dictionary for writing and speaking English

  • 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 — Pelt, n. A blow or stroke from something thrown. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • pelt — [n] animal fur coat, epidermis, fell, hair, hide, jacket, skin, slough, wool; concept 399 pelt [v] beat; throw hard assail, batter, belabor, belt, bombard, career, cast, charge, dash, hammer, hurl, knock, lapidate, pepper, pound, pour, pummel,… …   New thesaurus

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