Pelt

Part of speech: noun (n.)

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. The body of any quarry killed by the hawk. Pelt rot, a disease affecting the hair or wool of a beast.

Part of speech: noun (n.)

A blow or stroke from something thrown.

Part of speech: verb (v.)

1. To strike with something thrown or driven; to assail with pellets or missiles, as, to pelt with stones; pelted with hail. The children billows seem to pelt the clouds. Shak.

2. To throw; to use as a missile. My Phillis me with pelted apples plies. Dryden.

Part of speech: verb (v.)

1. To throw missiles. Shak.

2. To throw out words. [Obs.] Another smothered seems to peltand swear. Shak.