pelt
pelt
- n the dressed hairy coat of a mammal
- n body covering of a living animal
- v cast, hurl, or throw repeatedly with some missile
They pelted each other with snowballs - v attack and bombard with or as if with missiles
pelt the speaker with questions - v rain heavily
- We're supposed to draw back aghast from the close-ups of Diane endlessly applying her razor to Lionel's pelt.
- Stod King and Zo Elliott wrote a song and when they did their act in Boston, the other Zets stopped pounding with their beer mugs, stopped moulding spongy biscuit-insides to pelt .
- A large, unblemished pelt can fetch over $10,000, and powdered tiger bones sell for hundreds of dollars per kilogram.