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Meaning and definition for "pelt" word

[noun] body covering of a living animal
[noun] the dressed hairy coat of a mammal
[verb] attack with missiles or questions
[verb] cast, hurl, or throw repeatedly with some missile; "They pelted each other with snowballs"
[verb] rain heavily; "Put on your rain coat-- it's pouring outside!"
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\Pelt\, 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 4th {Fell}. --Sir T. Browne. Raw pelts clapped about them for their clothes. --Fuller. 2. The human skin. [Jocose] --Dryden. 3. (Falconry) The body of any quarry killed by the hawk. {Pelt rot}, a disease affecting the hair or wool of a beast.
\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 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.
\Pelt\, v. i. 1. To throw missiles. --Shak. 2. To throw out words. [Obs.] Another smothered seems to peltand swear. --Shak.
\Pelt\, n. A blow or stroke from something thrown.

Synonyms for pelt

bombard, fur, hide, pepper, pour, rain buckets, rain cats and dogs, skin, stream

See also: animal skin | assail | astrakhan | attack | bearskin | beaver | body covering | chinchilla | egg | ermine | fox | lambskin | lapidate | lapin | leopard | mink | muskrat | otter | rabbit | raccoon | rain | rain down | sable | seal | sealskin | sheet | sluice | sluice down | snowball | squirrel | throw | throw |

Related terms: barrel, biff, buffet, chunk, crack, drop, fling, furs, hurl, hurtle, launch, maul, nutria, put, rap, seal, shoot at, slug, thwack, wallop, wool, work over

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Let's analyse "pelt" as pure text. This string has Four letters in One syllable and One vowel. 25% of vowels is 13.6% less then average English word. Written in backwards: TLEP. Average typing speed for these characters is 1090 milliseconds. [info]

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Numerology

Hearts desire number calculated from vowels: pelt: 5 = 5, reduced: 5 . and the final result is Five.
Destiny number calculated from all letters: pelt: 7 + 5 + 3 + 2 = 17, reduced: 8, and the final result is Eight.

Tarot cards

Letter Num. Tarot c. Intensity Meaning
E (1) 5 Hierophant Wise, Crafty, Daring, Inventive
L (1) 12 Hanged Man Leader, Teacher, Healer, Decisive
P (1) 16 Tower Craftsman, Laborer, Builder
T (1) 20 Judgement Unswerving, Steadfast, Demanding, Forceful

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