pelt (redirected from pelting down)

pelt ¹  (plt)

n.

1. The skin of an animal with the fur or hair still on it.

2. A stripped animal skin ready for tanning.

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[Middle English, probably from Old French pelete, diminutive of pel, skin, from Latin pellis; see pel-³ in Indo-European roots.]

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pelt ¹

Verb

1. to throw (missiles) at

2. (foll. by along)etc. to hurry

3. to rain heavily

Noun

1. a blow

2. at full pelt very quickly: she ran down the street at full pelt [origin unknown]

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pelt ²

Noun

the skin or fur of an animal, esp. as material for clothing or rugs: the lucrative international trade in beaver pelts [probably from Latin pellis skin]

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	pelt - the dressed hairy coat of a mammal fur animal skin - the outer covering of an animal astrakhan - the fur of young lambs bearskin - the pelt of a bear (sometimes used as a rug) beaver, beaver fur - the soft brown fur of the beaver chinchilla - the expensive silvery grey fur of the chinchilla ermine - the expensive white fur of the ermine fox - the grey or reddish-brown fur of a fox lambskin - the skin of a lamb with the wool still on lapin, rabbit - the fur of a rabbit leopard - the pelt of a leopard mink - the expensive fur of a mink muskrat, muskrat fur - the brown fur of a muskrat otter - the fur of an otter raccoon - the fur of the North American racoon sable - the expensive dark brown fur of the marten sealskin, seal - the pelt or fur (especially the underfur) of a seal; "a coat of seal" squirrel - the fur of a squirrel
	2.	pelt - body covering of a living animal hide, skin body covering - any covering for the body or a body part
Verb	1.	pelt - cast, hurl, or throw repeatedly with some missile; "They pelted each other with snowballs" bombard lapidate - throw stones at; "Pilgrims lapidate a stone pillar in commemoration of Abraham's temptation" snowball - throw snowballs at egg - throw eggs at throw - propel through the air; "throw a frisbee"
	2.	pelt - attack and bombard with or as if with missiles; "pelt the speaker with questions" pepper attack, assail - launch an attack or assault on; begin hostilities or start warfare with; "Hitler attacked Poland on September 1, 1939 and started World War II"; "Serbian forces assailed Bosnian towns all week"
	3.	pelt - rain heavily; "Put on your rain coat-- it's pouring outside!" rain buckets, rain cats and dogs, stream, pour rain, rain down - precipitate as rain; "If it rains much more, we can expect some flooding" sheet - come down as if in sheets; "The rain was sheeting down during the monsoon" sluice, sluice down - pour as if from a sluice; "An aggressive tide sluiced across the barrier reef"

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pelt ¹

verb 1. shower, beat, strike, pepper, batter, thrash, bombard, wallop (informal) assail, pummel, hurl at, cast at, belabour, sling at

verb 2. pour, teem, rain hard, bucket down (informal) rain cats and dogs (informal)

verb 3. rush, charge, shoot, career, speed, tear, belt (slang) dash, hurry, barrel (along) (informal), chiefly U.S., Canad. whizz (informal) stampede, run fast, burn rubber (informal)

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pelt ²

noun coat, fell, skin, hide

Translations

pelt [pɛlt] vt to pelt sb with sth → arrojarle algo a algn vi (rain) (also: pelt down) → llover a cántaros

n → pellejo

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pelt [pɛlt] vt to pelt sb (with) → bombarder qn (de) vi [rain] → tomber à seaux;

(inf) (= run); courir à toutes jambes

n → peau f

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pelt [pɛlt] vi [rain] (also: pelt down) → niederprasseln;

(inf) (= run); rasen

n (= animal skin) → Pelz m, Fell nt

vt to pelt sb with sth → jdn mit etw bewerfen

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pelt [pɛlt] vt to pelt sb (with) → bombardare qn (con) vi [rain] → piovere a dirotto

n → pelle f