bepeltv.
/bɪˈpɛlt/ transitive. To pelt soundly; to assail with missiles.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > action of propelling missile > assail with missiles [verb (transitive)] > of missile: hit > hit with missile > repeatedly
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bepelt1622
1622 J. Mabbe tr. M. Alemán Rogue i. 94 They shrewdly be-pelted their Pates.
1630 J. Taylor Wks. ii. 145 [They] Bepelted me with Lome, with Stones, and Laths.
1832 Fraser's Mag. 5 756 The Duke..was hissed and bepelted.
1852 N. Hawthorne Wonder-bk. (1879) 117 The children..bepelted him with snowballs.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online September 2018).
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