Pelt

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  • noun. The skin of an animal with the fur or hair still on it.
  • noun. A stripped animal skin ready for tanning.
  • intransitive verb. undefined
  • intransitive verb. To strike or assail repeatedly with thrown objects: synonym: barrage.
  • intransitive verb. To strike (someone) with blows, as with a club.
  • intransitive verb. To hurl or throw (missiles).
  • intransitive verb. To fall upon; strike repeatedly.
  • intransitive verb. To fall heavily or abundantly; beat.
  • intransitive verb. To move at a vigorous gait.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A blow or stroke from something thrown.
  • noun. Rage; anger; passion.
  • To push; thrust.
  • To assail with missiles; assail or strike with something thrown.
  • To throw; cast; hurl.
  • To throw missiles.
  • To fall or descend (on one) with violence or persistency: as, a pelting rain.
  • To proceed rapidly and without intermission; hurry on: as, the horses pelted along at a fine pace.
  • To bandy words; use abusive language; be in a passion.
  • To submit; become paltry.
  • To skin; fleece; pluck the pelt from.
  • noun. The skin of a beast with the hair on it, especially of one of the smaller animals used in furriery; specifically, a fur-skin dried but not prepared for use as fur; a raw hide: sometimes applied to a garment made from such a skin.
  • noun. The mangled quarry of a hawk; the dead body of a bird killed by a hawk.
  • noun. Soft leather used for covering inking-pelds.
  • noun. Synonyms Hide, etc. See skin.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A blow or stroke from something thrown.
  • noun. 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.
  • noun. The human skin.
  • noun. The body of any quarry killed by the hawk.
  • noun. a disease affecting the hair or wool of a beast.
  • transitive verb. To strike with something thrown or driven; to assail with pellets or missiles
  • transitive verb. To throw; to use as a missile.
  • intransitive verb. To throw missiles.
  • intransitive verb. To throw out words.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. 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.
  • noun. The body of any quarry killed by a hawk.
  • noun. Human skin.
  • verb. To bombard, as with missiles.
  • verb. To rain or hail heavily.
  • verb. To throw out words.
  • verb. To beat or hit, especially repeatedly.
  • verb. To move rapidly, especially in or on a conveyance.
  • noun. A blow or stroke from something thrown.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. attack and bombard with or as if with missiles
  • verb. cast, hurl, or throw repeatedly with some missile
  • verb. rain heavily
  • noun. body covering of a living animal
  • noun. the dressed hairy coat of a mammal
  • Word Usage
    "The fact that not only compounds already existing may convert pelt into leather, but that a similar effect is obtained _inside the pelt_, by their components, is indeed of theoretical interest."
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    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Celt  belt  celt  dealt  dwelt  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    blanket  cape  carcass  cloak  cub  
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    variant
    fell  
    verb-form
    pelted  pelting  pelts