Category:Pelt

Pelt, n. Etym: [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)

Defn: the body of any quarry killed by the hawk. Pelt rot, a disease Affecting the hair or wool of a beast.

Pelt Pelt, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Pelted; p. pr. & vb. n. Pelting.] Etym: [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 Pelt, v. i.

1. To throw missiles. Shak.

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

Pelt Pelt, n.

Defn: a blow or stroke from something thrown.