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pelting

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pelt·ing  (pltng)
adj. Archaic
Paltry; petty: "This land . . . /Is now leas'd out . . . /Like to a tenement or pelting farm" (Shakespeare).
[Perhaps from dialectal pelt, trash.]
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Noun1.peltingpelting - anything happening rapidly or in quick successive; "a rain of bullets"; "a pelting of insults"
rain
chronological sequence, chronological succession, succession, successiveness, sequence - a following of one thing after another in time; "the doctor saw a sequence of patients"


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They went on until they were beneath the shelter of the thick jungle growth of trees, which kept off some of the pelting drops.
Tom Swift In The Land Of Wonders by Appleton, Victor View in context
But soon he was pelting home to his mother with the glorious news.
The Little White Bird by Barrie, James Matthew View in context
The hours, whose minutes are marked by the crash of the breaking seas, slip by with the screaming, pelting squalls overtaking the ship as she runs on and on with darkened canvas, with streaming spars and dripping ropes.
The Mirror of the Sea by Conrad, Joseph View in context
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