pelt /ˈpɛlt/
  投擲,疾行,毛皮(vt.)剝…的皮,投擲,急降,攻擊(vi.)投擊,猛落
  Pelt 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.
     Raw pelts clapped about them for their clothes.   --Fuller.
  2. The human skin. [Jocose]
  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.]
  1. To strike with something thrown or driven; to assail with pellets or missiles, as, to pelt with stones; pelted with hail.
     The chidden 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.
  2. To throw out words. [Obs.]
     Another smothered seems to pelt and swear.   --Shak.
  Pelt, n. A blow or stroke from something thrown.
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  pelt
       n 1: the dressed hairy coat of a mammal [syn: fur]
       2: body covering of a living animal [syn: hide, skin]
       v 1: cast, hurl, or throw repeatedly with some missile; "They
            pelted each other with snowballs" [syn: bombard]
       2: attack and bombard with or as if with missiles; "pelt the
          speaker with  questions" [syn: pepper]
       3: rain heavily; "Put on your rain coat-- it's pouring
          outside!" [syn: pour, stream, rain cats and dogs, rain
          buckets]