pelt
[verb]
Synonyms:
- throw, batter, bombard, cast, hurl, pepper, shower, sling, strike
- rush, belt (slang), charge, dash, hurry, run fast, shoot, speed, tear
- pour, bucket down (informal), rain cats and dogs (informal), rain hard, teem
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[noun]
coat, fell, hide, skin

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I. pelt¹ /pelt/ verb
[Date: 1400-1500; Origin: Origin unknown]

1. [transitive] to attack someone by throwing a lot of things at them
pelt somebody with something
The marchers were pelted with rocks and bottles.

2. [intransitive and transitive] to be raining very heavily ⇒ pour:
Rain pelted the windows.
It’s pelting down out there.
the cold wind and pelting rain

3. [intransitive always + adverb/preposition] informal to run somewhere very fast:
Three huge dogs came pelting into the street.

[TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲

II. pelt² noun [countable]
[Sense 1-2: Date: 1400-1500; Origin: Perhaps from peltry 'skins, furs' (15-19 centuries), from Anglo-French pelterie, from Latin pellis 'skin']
[Sense 3: Date: 1800-1900; Origin: ⇒ pelt¹]

1. the skin of a dead animal, especially with the fur or hair still on it ⇒ hide

2. the fur or hair of a living animal

3. (at) full pelt British English moving as fast as possible:
Nancy ran at full pelt to the school.

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