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Look up: pelt

  1. pelt
    [v] - cast, hurl, or throw repeatedly with some missile
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  2. Pelt
    The skin of an animal with the fur still on it.
    Found on http://www.digitalstroud.co.uk/glossary.

  3. Pelt
    This word means, strictly speaking, any kind of skin (Latin pellis, related to the German felle, a skin, and the English word fell, now preserved only in fellmonger). The word is somewhat loosely used in the leather industry, but its only common applications nowadays are to sheepskins in two or thre...
    Found on http://redwood.uk.com/glossary

  4. pelt
    in the leather trade,as opposed to the fur trade,commonly used to designate the hide and skin prepared for tanning by removal of the hair or wool,epidermis and flesh Category: Various industries and crafts
    Found on http://www.mijnwoordenboek.nl/definition

  5. Pelt
    Pelt noun [ Confer German pelz a pelt, fur, from Old French pelice , French pelisse (see Pelisse ); or perhaps shortened from peltry .] 1. The skin of a beast with the hair on; a raw or undressed hide; a skin ...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/P/44

  6. Pelt
    Pelt transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Pelted ; present participle & verbal noun Pelting .] [ Middle English pelten , pulten , pilten , to thrust, throw, ...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/P/44

  7. Pelt
    Pelt intransitive verb 1. To throw missiles. Shak. 2. To throw out words. [ Obsolete] « Another smothered seems to pelt and swear.» Shak.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/P/44

  8. Pelt
    Pelt noun A blow or stroke from something thrown.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/P/44

  9. pelt
    1. To strike with something thrown or driven; to assail with pellets or missiles, as, to pelt with stones; pelted with hail. 'The children billows seem to pelt the clouds.' (Shak) ... 2. To throw; to use as a missile. 'My Phillis me with pelted apples plies.' (Dryden) ... Origin: OE. Pelten, pulten,...
    Found on http://www.mondofacto.com/facts/dictiona

  10. Pelt
    • (v. i.) To throw out words. • (n.) 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. • (v. t.) To throw; to use as a missile. • (n.) The human skin. • (n.) The body of any quarry killed by...
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning

  11. pelt
    (from the article `fur`) The pelts of fur-bearing animals are called true furs when they consist of two elements: a dense undercoat, called ground hair, and longer hairs, ...
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/p/37

  12. pelt
    • the dressed hairy coat of a mammal
    • body covering of a living animal

    Found on

  13. Pelt
    light shield.
    Found on http://s_van_dorst.tripod.com/Ancient_Wa



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