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 pelt /ˈpɛlt/
 投擲,疾行,毛皮(vt.)剝…的皮,投擲,急降,攻擊(vi.)投擊,猛落

 Pelt n.
 1. The skin of a beast with the hair on; a raw or undressed hide; a skin preserved with the hairy or woolly covering on it. See 4th Fell.
    Raw pelts clapped about them for their clothes.   --Fuller.
 2. The human skin. [Jocose]
 3. Falconry The body of any quarry killed by the hawk.
 Pelt rot, a disease affecting the hair or wool of a beast.

 Pelt, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Pelted; p. pr. & vb. n. Pelting.]
 1. To strike with something thrown or driven; to assail with pellets or missiles, as, to pelt with stones; pelted with hail.
    The chidden billows seem to pelt the clouds.   --Shak.
 2. To throw; to use as a missile.
    My Phillis me with pelted apples plies.   --Dryden.

 Pelt, v. i.
 1. To throw missiles.
 2. To throw out words. [Obs.]
    Another smothered seems to pelt and swear.   --Shak.

 Pelt, n. A blow or stroke from something thrown.
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 pelt
      n 1: the dressed hairy coat of a mammal [syn: fur]
      2: body covering of a living animal [syn: hide, skin]
      v 1: cast, hurl, or throw repeatedly with some missile; "They
           pelted each other with snowballs" [syn: bombard]
      2: attack and bombard with or as if with missiles; "pelt the
         speaker with  questions" [syn: pepper]
      3: rain heavily; "Put on your rain coat-- it's pouring
         outside!" [syn: pour, stream, rain cats and dogs, rain
         buckets]