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The skin of an animal with the hair or wool on; either a raw or undressed hide, or a skin preserved with the hair or wool on it (sometimes worn as a garment with minimal modification).
(RQ:Jefferies Amateur Poacher)
(quote-journal)|month=July|year=1922|volume=XLV, part 9|page=617|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=IsPnAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA617|column=1|oclc=870086995|passage=My people got themselves pelts and pelts—there was such a trapping as comes but few times in a life. Pelts and pelts, the silver and the grey—fine pelts.
The skin of an animal (especially a goat or sheep) with the hair or wool removed, often in preparation for tanning.
(RQ:Dryden Georgics)
(RQ:Lindsay Age of Consent)
A garment made from animal skins.
The body of any quarry killed by a hawk; also, a dead bird given to a hawk for food.
(RQ:R. F. Burton Falconry)
(quote-book), Ninetieth States Congress|Congress, First Session on Proposals to Impose Import Quotas on Oil, Steel, Textiles, Meat, Dairy Products, and Other Commodities: Part 1(nb...)|location=Washington, D.C.|publisher=States Government Publishing Office|U.S. Government Printing Office|year=1967|page=108|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=bvVqcCbnU7UC&pg=PA108|oclc=452561|passage=Let us take a typical case of a mink farmer here in Connecticut who is being forced to throw in the sponge this coming fall. (..) He pelts from 3500 to 4000 minks a year and has a huge investment of several thousand dollars tied up in his mink business.
''Chiefly followed by'' from: to remove (the skin) from an animal.
(RQ:Nashe Saffron-Walden) He preſently untruſſeth, and pelts the out-ſide from the lining, (..) with it he made him a caſe, or cover, for a dublet, which hath caſed and coverd his nakednes ever ſince: (..)|footer=Used to describe removing the velvet covering of a saddle.
(RQ:L'Estrange Fables of Aesop)
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(RQ:Foxe Actes and Monuments)
(RQ:Defoe Crusoe 2)
(quote-book)|year=1847|page=48|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=PGZQAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA48|oclc=20469997|passage=He pelteth old gentlemen driving four-wheeled chaises with snuff-boxes, and distributeth pincushions to the domestics, breaking windows withal.
(RQ:Woolf To the Lighthouse)
(quote-book)
To force (someone or something) to move using blows or the throwing of missiles.
(RQ:Scott Antiquary) Martin survived (..) to receive absolution from the very priest, whom, precisely on that day three years, he had assisted to pelt out of the hamlet of Morgenbrodt.
(RQ:R. F. Burton Arabian Nights)
(RQ:Joyce Finnegans Wake)
Of a number of small objects (such as raindrops), or the sun's rays: to down or fall on (someone or something) in a shower.
(RQ:Shakespeare Othello Q1)
(RQ:Middleton Rowley Changeling)
(RQ:Burney Cecilia)
(RQ:Charlotte Bronte Jane Eyre) Total obscurity environed me; rain pelted me; (..)
(RQ:Twain Innocents Abroad)
''Chiefly followed by'' at: to (continuously) throw (missiles) at.
(RQ:Swift Tale of a Tub)
(RQ:Dickens Bleak House)
To repeatedly beat or hit (someone or something).
To assail (someone) with harsh words in speech or writing; to abuse, to insult.
(RQ:Tatler) had the honour to be pelted with several epistles to expostulate with me on that subject.
(RQ:Boswell Johnson)
Especially of hailstones, rain, or snow: to beat down or fall forcefully or heavily; to down.
(RQ:Marlowe Tamburlaine)
(RQ:Keats Lamia)
(quote-journal)|location=London|publisher=(...) Dean and Munday,(nb...)|month=May|year=1822|volume=XV (Improved Series)|section=stanza 2|page=299|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=3pQwAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA299|oclc=1041735407|passage=Thou peltest fast with icy show'r, / Which surely cannot please one; / The wind too has such boist'rous pow'r, / 'Tis quite enough to freeze one.
(RQ:Dana Two Years)
To move rapidly, especially in or on a conveyance.
(RQ:Dickens Christmas Carol)
(quote-journal)|location=Chicago, Ill.|publisher=Kindergarten Publishing Company|month=March|year=1892|volume=IV|issue=VII|page=471|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=KR5BAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA471|column=2|oclc=1298756436|passage=Spring, is ye comen in, / Dappled larke singe, / Snow melteth, / Runnel pelteth, / Smelleth wind of newe buddinge.
(quote-journal)
''Chiefly followed by'' at: to bombard someone or something with missiles continuously.
(RQ:Shakespeare Henry 6-1)
(RQ:Milton Colasterion)
(RQ:Fuller Worthies of England)
(quote-book) Ægidius Diest|month=December 1 (Gregorian calendar)|year=1564|section=folio 84, verso|sectionurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=L7JoAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA84-IA1|oclc=504513317|passage=She church holdeth the veritie of his bodie ''i.e.'', (w)'s body in the Eucharist: ſhe pelteth not vvith God, denying this to be his body, bicauſe ſhe is cōmaunded to do this in remembrãce of hym: but ſhe doth beſt remembre hym, vvhen ſhe hath the bodie vvhich ſuffered, before her.|footer=(small).
(RQ:Shakespeare Lucrece)
(RQ:Milton Of True Religion)
A beating or falling down of hailstones, rain, or snow in a shower.
(RQ:Smollett Humphry Clinker)
(RQ:Fuller Church History)
(RQ:Wells War in the Air)
(alternative form of)
A small shield, especially one of an approximately elliptical form, or crescent-shaped.
A flat apothecium with no rim.
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