pelt

1. (obsolete, rare) To remove feathers from (a bird).Examples: "A Man took an Eagle, Pelted her VVings, and put her among his Hens. Somebody came and bought This Eagle, and preſently Nevv-Feather'd her."obsoleteraretransitive

1. (transitive)Examples: "The children are pelting each other with snowballs."; "They pelted the attacking army with bullets."; "Pope Lucius [II] being also amongst thē in the fight, well pelted with stones and blowes liued not long after."Synonyms: bethwack, bang, baste, batter, beat, belabor, blow, boom-boomtransitive

2. (transitive)Examples: "[…] 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."; "Presently, sweetened by distance, would be heard the wild weird song of lads and lasses, driving or rather pelting, through the gloaming their sheep and goats; […]"; "So he was pelted out of the coram populo, was he?"transitive

3. (transitive)Examples: "The chiding billovv ſeemes to pelt the cloudes, / The vvinde ſhak'd ſurge, vvith high and monſtrous mayne, / Seemes to caſt vvater, on the burning Beare, […]"; "Ile ſtand this ſtorm of hail though the ſtones pelt me."; "They had gone but a fevv ſteps, before there came a violent ſhovver of hail; and the vvind, vvhich vvas very high, being immediately in their faces, Cecilia vvas ſo pelted and incommoded, that ſhe vvas frequently obliged to ſtop, in defiance of her utmoſt efforts to force herſelf forvvard."transitive

4. (transitive)Examples: "The children pelted apples at us."; "[I]n his Paroxyſms, as he vvalked the Streets, he vvould have his Pockets loaden vvith Stones, to pelt at the Signs."; "Will someone hand me anything hard and bruising to pelt at her?"Synonyms: cockshytransitive

5. (transitive)dialectaltransitive

6. (transitive)Examples: "I have […] had the honour to be pelted with several epistles to expostulate with me on that subject."; "They don't knovv hovv to go about their abuſe. VVho vvill read a five ſhilling book againſt me? No, Sir, if they had vvit, they ſhould have kept pelting me vvith pamphlets."figurativelytransitive

1. (archaic except Ireland) A blow or stroke from something thrown.Examples: "[T]he cripple, in falling, gave him ſuch a good pelt on the head vvith his crutch, that the blood follovved."transitive

2. (figuratively)figurativelytransitive

3. (figuratively)Examples: "The pope [Innocent IV] being in this pelt, Ægidus, a Spanish cardinal, thus interposed his gravity: […]"figurativelytransitive

4. (chiefly Northern England except in at (full) pelt) An act of moving quickly; a rush.Examples: "It's a good day off us anyhow, and they're all going south-west by south full pelt as hard as they can go."transitive

1. (by extension) Anything in a ragged and worthless state; rubbish, trash.Scotlandbroadlytransitive

1. (intransitive, obsolete) To bargain for a better deal; to haggle.intransitiveobsoletetransitive