pelt
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1. pelt - Noun
2. pelt - Verb
3. Pelt - Proper noun
Meaning
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.
The human skin.
The body of any quarry killed by the hawk.
To strike with something thrown or driven; to assail with pellets or missiles, as, to pelt with stones; pelted with hail.
To throw; to use as a missile.
To throw missiles.
To throw out words.
A blow or stroke from something thrown.
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Poet: "Straton wanders among the Scythian nomads, but has no linen garment. He is sad at only wearing an animal's pelt and no tunic.” Do you get what I mean? Pisthetaerus: I understand that you want me to offer you a tunic. Hi! you (To the acolyte.) take off yours; we must help the poet.
Directly the mulberry tree begins to make you circle, break off. Pelt the tree with laughter.
The rain to the wind said, 'You push and I'll pelt.' They so smote the garden bed. That the flowers actually knelt, And lay lodged -- though not dead. I know how the flowers felt.
I have two speeds, nothing and full pelt.
A fox is in trouble because of his own pelt.
Wolf in sheep's pelt.