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单词 pelt
释义 pelt
I. \ˈpelt\ noun
(-s)
Etymology: Middle English, perhaps back-formation from peltry — more at peltry
1.
 a. : a usually undressed skin with its hair, wool, or fur
 b. : a skin (as of a sheep or goat) stripped of hair or wool for tanning
2. : the human skin
3. : the dead body of a hawk's quarry
II. verb
(-ed/-ing/-s)
transitive verb
: to remove the skin or pelt from (an animal)
intransitive verb
: to remove the skin or pelt from animals
III. verb
(-ed/-ing/-s)
Etymology: Middle English pelten
transitive verb
1.
 a. : to strike with a succession of blows or missiles
  < the chidden billow seems to pelt the clouds — Shakespeare >
  < boys … pelted the girls with green apples — Sherwood Anderson >
 b. : to assail repeatedly and usually forcefully with words : beset
  < pelting him with ridicule and vilification — Walter O'Meara >
  < the crowd pelted him with questions while he slid from his saddle — Everybody's Magazine >
2. : to drive by means of a succession of blows or missiles
 < lads … pelting through the gloaming their sheep and goats — Sir Richard Burton >
3. : to throw a succession or stream of (as missiles)
 < the rout followed and pelted stones — Anthony Wood >
4. : to fall upon or dash against with a succession of vigorous impacts
 < pelted the sides of houses like hailstones — R.A.Billington >
intransitive verb
1.
 a. : to deliver a succession of strokes or blows
  < the smith … pelting away at his hot iron — James Hogg >
 b. obsolete : to utter a succession of angry words
2. : to throw a succession of missiles
 < filled their pockets full of pebblestones and … pelt so fast at one another's pate — Shakespeare >
3. : to fall or dash with a succession of vigorous impacts : beat incessantly
 < listening to the rain pelt and rattle on the tin roof — Marcia Davenport >
4. : to move rapidly and vigorously : hurry
 < riding low … as hard as the mare could pelt — H.L.Davis >
 < imagine the whole crowd pelting to the telephones — C.W.Morton >
IV. noun
(-s)
1. : a blow with or as if with something thrown : whack
 < gave him … a good pelt on the head with his crutch — Tobias Smollett >
2. dialect chiefly England : a fit of rage
3. : a rapid vigorous pace : speed
 < the tug going by, full pelt, down the river — Joseph Conrad >
4. : a persistent falling or beating (as of rain) : a pelting storm
 < the swish and pelt of the rain were heard in pauses — D.C.Murray >
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