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.
The human skin. [Jocose] Dryden.
The body of any quarry killed by the hawk. Pelt rot, a disease affecting the hair or wool of a beast.
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.
To throw; to use as a missile. My Phillis me with pelted apples plies. Dryden.
To throw missiles. Shak.
To throw out words. [Obs.] Another smothered seems to peltand swear. Shak.
A blow or stroke from something thrown.
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