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Webster's Dictionary (1865)

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Pelt

Pĕlt, n.

noun

Pĕlt, n. [Ger. pelz, a pelt, fur; L. Ger. pils, D., Dan., & Sw. pels. See PELISSE.]

  1. The skin of a beast with the hair on; an undressed hide; a skin preserved with the hairy or woolly covering on it.
  2. The quarry of a hawk all torn. Ainsworth.

Pelt-rot, a disease which affects the hair or wool of a beast.

Pēlt, v. t.

verbtransitive

v. t. [imp. & p. p. PELTED; p. pr. & vb. n. PELTING.] [Fr. peloter, to knock about the ball, to pelt with snowballs, to beat, from pelote, a ball; or contracted from pellet, q. v.] 1. To strike with something thrown; to belabor with pellets or missiles; as, to pelt with stones; pelted with hail. The chiding billows seem to pelt the clouds. Shak. 2. To use as a missile. My Phillis me with pelted apples plies. Dryden.

Pēlt, n.

noun

n. A blow or stroke from something thrown.