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.