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bepelt, v.|bɪˈpɛlt| [f. be- 1 + pelt v.] trans. To pelt soundly; to assail with missiles.
1622Mabbe Aleman's Guzman d' Alf. i. 94 They shrewdly be-pelted their Pates. 1630J. Taylor (Water P.) Wks. ii. 145 [They] Bepelted me with Lome, with Stones, and Laths. 1832Fraser's Mag. V. 756 The Duke..was hissed and bepelted. 1852Hawthorne Wonder-Bk. (1879) 117 The children..bepelted him with snowballs. |