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peltn.1

Brit. /pɛlt/, U.S. /pɛlt/
Forms: Middle English–1500s pelte, Middle English– pelt, 1600s pealt.
Origin: Of uncertain origin.
Etymology: Immediate origin uncertain; compare pell n.1, pellet n.2, and peltry n.1, but these are all first attested later. Compare post-classical Latin pelta (1268, 1282 in British sources). The present word may show a syncopated borrowing from Anglo-Norman pelette , pellet (compare Old French pelete , pelette membrane, pellicle, foreskin (13th cent.)) or post-classical Latin peletta , pelleta , pelletta pellet n.2 Perhaps compare Middle High German belz , pelz ( < bellīz , bellez (see pellet n.2), with syncope of the second syllable; German Pelz, †Belz), and also Middle Dutch pels, pelse (Dutch pels), Middle Low German pels, pelz.
1. The hide or skin of an animal with the wool, hair, etc., still on it. Cf. fell n.1 1a.In some quots. difficult to distinguish from sense 2. In quot. 1303 Latin sine lana has been taken as implying that without this qualification the word pelt would denote a sheepskin together with its fleece.
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society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > skin or hide > skin with hair attached or fur > [noun] > a pelt or fur
felleOE
pelt1303
pell1404
1303 in N. S. B. Gras Early Eng. Customs Syst. (1918) 166 (MED) Binda similiter de pellibus pellectis, scilicet scherling; i d. Item, centum aliarum pellectarum que Anglice vocantur peltis sine lana debet iii d.
1425 in W. Kennett Parochial Antiq. (1818) II. 250 xiv. peltys bidentum.
c1565 Disc. Common Weal Eng. (1893) ii. 56 Haue not ye graisers raised the price of youre wolles and peltes?
1579 T. Twyne tr. Petrarch Phisicke against Fortune ii. xciii. 284 Thou hast not the skynne of a Bucke, nor the pelt of a Lambe, nor the case of a Foxe.
1596 W. Warner Albions Eng. (rev. ed.) xi. lxvii. 283 Their store of Sables, Furres, and Pealts.
1661 O. Felltham Resolves (rev. ed.) 289 God..out of pitty to his creature,..put him into pelts.
1767 F. Fawkes tr. Theocritus Idylliums v. 48 What Crocylus bestow'd, of special note, When to the nymphs he sacrific'd a goat; Thou envied'st me the present, and by theft Hast basely of the speckled pelt bereft.
1787 T. Andrewes Rates & Tables i. sig. H2v Pelts of Goats dressed, the Dozen.
1808 T. H. Horne Compl. Grazier (ed. 3) 45 The whole [sheep's] body [should be] covered with a thin pelt.
1837 N. Whittock et al. Compl. Bk. Trades 256 Preparing the skins or pelts of furred animals, and converting them into muffs and tippets.
1901 Times 30 Dec. 12/6 Pelts of bears caught in the spring..are worth more than those secured later in the year, because the fur is soft and thick.
1959 E. Collier Three against Wilderness 328 If you caught a real small one [sc. a fisher cat] with dark silky fur you could figure that the pelt was good for a hundred dollars anyways.
1992 Dogs Today Dec. 31/1 Why would it [sc. the RSPCA] bother to ‘spoil’ the carcasses of the thousands of animals it puts down each year, if it didn't fear the pelts weren't being stripped off and sold.
2.
a. The raw skin of an animal (esp. a sheep or goat) stripped of its wool, hair, etc.; a skin in this state ready for tanning. Also figurative.In later use chiefly as a technical term.In quot. 1608: †the skin of a fish (obsolete).
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society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > skin or hide > [noun] > hide with hair removed
barehidec1450
pelt1482
society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > skin or hide > [noun] > fish skin
pelt1608
1482 J. Dalton Let. 27 Jan. in Cely Lett. (1975) 129 All your ffellys here don weell, but ȝe schall onderstond that we lacke peltys.
1562 Act 5 Eliz. c. 22 §1 It shall not bee laufull..to make any Peltes, that is to saye, to pull, sheare, clippe or take away the Wooll of any Shepe-skinne or Lambe-skinne..unles suche person..doo make or cause to bee made therof..laufully tanned leather or Parchement.
1608 T. Hudson tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Ivdith v. 77 in J. Sylvester Deuine Weekes & Wks. (new ed.) Ye Carmans bolde that all on fish do feede, And of their pelts do make your warlike weede.
a1642 H. Best Farming & Memorandum Bks. (1984) 31 The skinnes of fatte sheepe..putte forth more woll, and allsoe the pelts are better for that there is more substance to worke upon.
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 86/2 Pelts, are the skins when the Wooll is taken off.
1712 J. Morton Nat. Hist. Northants. vii. 449 The Wool and Pelt being of a more tenacious and less dissoluble Texture, did not corrupt.
1790 Votes House of Commons of Irel. 26 Feb. 341 So soon as the process of manufacture has been commenced by pulling off the wool, the pelt or skin when naked becomes a most perishable commodity.
1832 J. Baxter Libr. Agric. & Hort. Knowl. (ed. 2) 276 The skin of the grey rabbit is cut,—that is, the ‘wool’, is pared off the pelt, as a material for hats.
1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Peltries, Pelts, the commercial name given to the skins of animals before tanning.
1902 Mod. Amer. Tanning I. 201 When the pelt is about half dry, it must be worked over what is called a perch.
2002 St. John's (Newfoundland) Telegram (Nexis) 29 Aug. a5 The report outlined Carino's plan to start tanning about 200 pelts per day.
†b. Printing. = pelt ball n. at Compounds 2; (also) untanned sheepskin used to make pelt balls. Obsolete.
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society > communication > printing > inking equipment > [noun] > inking ball
pumping ball1587
ball1611
pump-ball1611
pumpet1611
pelt1683
pelt balla1828
dauber1850
dabber1854
dab1861
tampion1877
tampon1877
ink-ball1884
1683 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises II. Dict. 386 Pelts, Sheep Skins untan'd, used for Ball Leathers.
1773 R. C. Nicholas Let. 15 Oct. in John Norton & Sons (1968) 359 One Dozen of Press Prints of different Sizes; likewise five Dozen of large Pelts; about 15 weight of Sheet head, fit for printing.
1824 J. Johnson Typographia II. xxi. 655 Pelts, untanned sheep skins used for balls.
†3. depreciative. A person likened to a dried skin; spec. (a) a miserly or mean person, a skinflint; (b) a withered or wizened person. Obsolete.
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the mind > possession > retaining > niggardliness or meanness > [noun] > niggard or mean person
nithinga1225
chinch?a1300
nigc1300
chincher1333
shut-purse1340
niggardc1384
haynec1386
nigona1400
pinchera1425
pinchpenny?c1425
pynepenya1450
pelt1511
chincherda1529
churl1535
pinchbeck1538
carl?1542
penny-father1549
nipfarthing1566
nipper?1573
holdfast1576
pinchpence1577
pinch fistc1580
pinchfart1592
shit-sticks1598
clunchfist1606
puckfist1606
sharp-nose1611
spare-good1611
crib1622
hog grubber?1626
dry-fist1633
clusterfist1652
niggardling1654
frummer1659
scrat1699
sting-hum1699
nipcheese1785
pincha1825
screw1825
wire-drawer1828
close-fist1861
penny-pincher1875
nip-skin1876
parer1887
pinch-plum1892
cheapskate1899
meanie1902
tightwad1906
stinge1914
penny-peeler1925
mean1938
stiff1967
the world > people > person > old person > [noun]
oldeOE
morea1382
olderc1450
ancient1502
mouldy chopsa1640
antediluvian1648
prediluvian1690
emerit1710
pelt1757
old fogey1793
antique1801
relic1832
old head1838
oldster1846
elderling1863
the Ancient of Days1935
senior citizen1938
OAP1942
golden ager1948
coffin dodger1954
wrinkly1972
crumbly1976
geriatric1977
1511 in P. F. Tytler Hist. Scotl. (1864) III. 385 The old worn pelt..who presently reigneth alone, and governeth without empeasche.
1538 T. Elyot Dict. Addicion Aridus homo, a drye felowe, of whom no thynge may be goten: som do call hym, a pelt, or a pynchebeke.
1757 R. Griffith & E. Griffith Lett. Henry & Frances I. xv. 22 A diabolical, miserable Pelt of an old Maid called Melpomene.
4. The skin of an animal worn as a garment (in later use usually with the implication of little or no shaping or tailoring). Formerly also: †a garment made of animal skins (obsolete). Now rare or merged in sense 1.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > [noun] > made from specific material > skin
pelt1565
the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > [noun] > made from specific material > skin > skin used as a garment
bearskinOE
sheepskin1470–85
pelt1565
nebris1776
1565 T. Cooper Thesaurus Diphtera, a sheapardes pelte or garment made of sheepe skinnes.
1580 T. Lupton Siuqila 21 Our father Adam..had but a leather Pelte to cover his nakednesse.
1585 J. Higgins tr. Junius Nomenclator 161/1 Mastruca..a pelt, or garments made of wolues and beares skins, which Nobles in old time vsed to weare in winter.
1649 C. Walker Anarchia Anglicana ii. 239 Some of them lead Dray-horses, wore Leather-pelts.
1927 Times 27 Oct. 13/4 The sufferers in pelts who stretch out their hands so unseasonably to the glow of an electric fire.
1951 F. Loesser in J. Swerling & A. Burrows Guys & Dolls (1960) ii. i. 45 Take back your mink Those worn out pelts And go shorten the sleeves For somebody else.
2004 Courier-Post (Cherry Hill, New Jersey) (Nexis) 9 Jan. 9 g Dawkins appears swathed in pelts with his wife, Connie.
†5. Falconry. The dead quarry of a hawk; a dead bird fed to a hawk (see also quot. 1691). Obsolete.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > hawking > quarry > [noun] > dead
pelt1615
1615 S. Latham Falconry (new ed.) i. iii. 11 Put on her hood: then lure her againe unto the dead pelt.
1615 S. Latham Falconry (new ed.) Gloss. sig. ¶2v Pelt, is the dead body of any fowle howsoeuer dismembred.
1691 J. Ray N. Country Words in Coll. Eng. Words (ed. 2) 54 Pelt is a word much used in Falconry for the skin of a Fowl stuft, or the Carcase it self of a dead Fowl, to throw out to a Hawk.
1852 R. F. Burton Falconry in Valley of Indus v. 60 If two [hawks] are flown.., the falconer is always flurried by their violent propensity to crab over the ‘pelt’.
1891 J. E. Harting Bibliotheca Accipitraria Gloss. 228 Pelt, the dead body of the quarry.
6. The human skin, esp. when bare. Now chiefly Irish English. in one's (also the) pelt: naked, in the nude.
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the world > life > the body > skin > [noun]
swardc725
fellOE
hidea1000
leather1303
skina1325
rinda1413
swarth?c1450
swadc1460
thackc1480
skin coat1589
hackle1609
flesha1616
pelta1626
integument1664
barka1758
exoskeleton1839
a1626 W. Rowley Birth of Merlin (1662) sig. G3v Fley off her wicked skin, and stuff the pelt with straw.
1651 N. Biggs Matæotechnia Medicinæ Praxeωs ⁋144 The profuse sweat, that rills through the creeks of the Pelt, the pores.
1824 W. Wheeler Let. 12 Feb. (1951) 233 I was astonished to see five straping fellows as naked as they came into the world, their nasty greacy pelts as yellow as saffron.
1846 ‘Lord Chief Baron’ Swell's Night Guide (new ed.) 37 She boasts of weighing sixteen stone out of her clothes, and is game to be weighed in her pelt before umpires.
1880 W. H. Patterson Gloss. Words Antrim & Down 5 He ran out on the street in his bare pelt.
1920 St. J. Ervine Foolish Lovers i. 30 He would not give his mother the satisfaction of hearing him cry, although the lashing he was receiving was hurting his bare pelt very sorely.
1964 B. Friel Philadelphia, Here I come! 72 In the bloody pelt!
1986 Toronto Star (Nexis) 5 Oct. e6 Itinerant biographers..have no trouble recognizing him, even in the bare pelt, after a game.
1999 F. McCourt 'Tis xxi. 178 To find the dancers rolling around naked and laughing and not giving a fiddler's fart about Mr Logan and his yelling that..he had a good mind to throw the lot of them into the street in their pelts.

Compounds

C1. General attributive.
pelt skin n.
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1621 in J. Barmby Churchwardens' Accts. Pittington (1888) 80 Item for a pelt skinn receyved from Lud[worth]: ij d.
1988 Tasmanian Country (Austral.) (Nexis) 28 Oct. Gotland pelt skins are being analysed in a research project currently under way in Tasmania.
C2.
pelt ball n. Printing (now historical and rare) a spherical pad covered with untanned sheepskin and used for applying ink to the forme; cf. sense 2b.
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society > communication > printing > inking equipment > [noun] > inking ball
pumping ball1587
ball1611
pump-ball1611
pumpet1611
pelt1683
pelt balla1828
dauber1850
dabber1854
dab1861
tampion1877
tampon1877
ink-ball1884
a1828 T. Bewick Mem. (1975) xxii. 188 The common Pelt balls then in use, so daubed the cut & blurred & overlapped its edges.
1890 Cassell's Sat. Jrnl. Feb. 328 A Shropshire printer was once unable to lay his hands upon the pelt ball with which he wanted to ink the type.
1929 Times 7 Nov. 9/3 He is assisted by his Inker, plying the pelt ball, and a ‘Printer's Devil’, who is making ink.
1960 G. A. Glaister Encycl. Bk. 190 Ink ball, a sheepskin-..covered pad, stuffed with horsehair and cotton, affixed to a wooden handled... Alternative names are dabber, ink pelt, pelt ball.
peltmonger n. a dealer in skins.
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society > trade and finance > trader > traders or dealers in specific articles > [noun] > in skins or furs
leather-kersner1226
fellmonger1310
pelter1318
pelleter1332
peltier1389
peltmonger1565
furrier1575
pell-monger1676
north-wester1791
skinmana1821
pelterer1876
1565 T. Cooper Thesaurus Pellio,..a skinner: he that maketh thynges of skinnes: a peltemunger.
1585 J. Banister Wecker's Compend. Chyrurg. ii. 361 Either with a common stitch, or else such one as coddars, or peltmongers vse to make.
1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. Pelt-monger,..a dealer in raw hides.
1798 C. Stearns Triumph of Temper i. i. 84 I heard you married Ketura Roughgrain, daughter of old Robert Roughgrain the Peltmonger.
1982 B. W. Aldiss Helliconia Spring xi. 261 In narrow alleys, peltmongers and all other mongers carried on their business.
pelt-rot n. now rare a skin disease of sheep in which the wool falls off.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > disorders of sheep > [noun] > skin disorders
shabc897
pelt-rot?1523
dartars1580
redwater1614
rubbers1779
sheep-scab1894
scabby mouth1938
cuckoo scab1941
?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. xxiiiiv There is a nother rote is called pelt rote: and that cometh of great weate, specially in wood countreis.
1614 G. Markham Cheape & Good Husbandry 80 The Pelt-rot..commeth by great store of raine.
1736 W. Ellis New Exper. Husbandry 42 It [sc. the Rot] also affects new shorn Sheep by the Rain's mildewing their Skin and corrupting the Blood;..this is called the Skin or Pelt-Rot.
1848 R. L. Allen Domestic Animals (1865) iv. 135 Pelt-rot will be recognised as one of the staple diseases of our native sheep.
1993 Manch. Guardian Weekly (Nexis) 31 Oct. 30 Besides foot-rot old-time shepherds were familiar with ‘pelt-rot’, ‘blood-rot’, ‘glanderous rot’, ‘hunger-rot’ and simply ‘the rot’.
pelt-shaker n. rare a person employed in pelt-shaking.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > tailoring or making clothes > making headgear > [noun] > hat-making > processes involved in > one who
little master1806
pouncer1868
planker?1881
wirer?1881
stiffener1892
pelt-shaker1902
1902 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 15 Feb. 378/2 Muscular tremors (‘hatter's shakes’) are most often observed in those engaged in dusty post-carrotting processes (for example cutters, lockers, and pelt-shakers).
pelt-shaking n. rare a process in the preparation of pelts for making hats.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > tailoring or making clothes > making headgear > [noun] > hat-making > processes involved in
ruffing1830
basoning1837
bowing1842
blocking1845
planking1845
proof1901
pelt-shaking1902
1902 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 15 Feb. 377/1 The various processes include (1) cleaning the skins..(7) locking, (8) pelt-shaking.
pelt wool n. now rare wool taken from the skin of a dead sheep; cf. pell wool n. at pell n.1 Compounds 2.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > wool > [noun] > type of > from sheep > from dead sheep
pelt wool1341
pell wool1404
morling1448
skin wool1495
fell wool1677
slipe1856
1341 in M. T. Löfvenberg Contrib. Middle Eng. Lexicogr. & Etymol. (1946) 26 (MED) [Lambs' wool, twice shorn wool, and other wool called] peltewolle..[100 sacks of] lambwoll [and] peltwoll.
1543 tr. Act 8 Hen. VI c. 22 That no man..put in the same [fleese], lokkes, peltwol, tarre, sand, yerth, grasse, nor no dyrt [Fr. lokkes pelwoll tarre peers sablon terre ne herbe, ne nulle autre order].
1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. Pelt-wool, wool stripped of the skin or pelt of a dead sheep.
1901 Times 7 Aug. 9/1 The arrival of about 1,800 bales of..Baghdad wool, which on examination do not appear to be equal in quality to last year's, and contain a large admixture of pelt wool.
1940 Chambers's Techn. Dict. 623/1 Pelt wool, wool which has been removed by the fellmonger from the pelts of slaughtered sheep.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

peltn.2

Brit. /pɛlt/, U.S. /pɛlt/
Forms: 1500s– pelt; English regional (south-western) 1900s– pult (in sense 2).
Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: pelt v.1
Etymology: < pelt v.1 Compare palt n., and earlier pilt n.
1.
a. An act of pelting; a vigorous blow or stroke, as from a missile. Also figurative: a verbal assault, a jibe, a ‘dig’. Now chiefly Irish English.
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the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > invective or abuse > [noun]
balec1220
ordurec1390
revile1439
brawlingc1440
railing1466
opprobry?a1475
revilingc1475
vituperation1481
vituper1484
vitupery1489
convicy1526
abusion?1530
blasphemation1533
pelta1540
oblatration?1552
words of mischief1555
abuse1559
inveighing1568
invection1590
revilement1590
invective1602
opprobration1623
invecture1633
thunder and lightning1638
raillery1669
rattlinga1677
blackguarding1742
pillory1770
slang1805
slangwhanging1809
bullyragging1820
slanging1856
bespattering1862
bespatterment1870
bad-mouthing1939
bad mouth1947
slagging1956
flak1968
verbal1970
handbagging1987
pelters1992
society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > action of propelling missile > [noun] > pelting with missiles
pelta1540
pelting1608
paltinga1626
peppering1814
the world > movement > impact > striking > striking with specific degree of force > [noun] > hard or vigorous striking > a hard or vigorous blow
rackc1300
pelta1540
sparring-blowa1690
racket1710
whack1737
skite1825
slogger1829
slug1830
swinger1836
slog1846
crump1850
bitch slap1987
a1540 (c1460) G. Hay tr. Bk. King Alexander 1544 Sic straikis thair thai delt On helm and hawbrek, ilk a pelt for pelt.
1570 Mariage Witte & Sci. v. v. sig. F.i Here is a pelt to make youre knaues hart freete.
1632 J. Vicars tr. Virgil XII Aeneids ix. 280 Troyes Ilioneus brave With a huge stone a deadly pelt him gave.
1724 Chrons. Atholl & Tullibardine Families II. 366 She got such a pelt on the side of the head with his hand that dang her to the ground.
1771 T. Smollett Humphry Clinker II. 129 The cripple..gave him such a good pelt on the head with his crutch, that the blood followed.
1819 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 4 727 Divers digs and many a ponderous pelt.
1889 Pall Mall Gaz. 28 May 6/3 Amusing pastimes, winding up with a general pelt of flowers.
1953 M. Traynor Eng. Dial. Donegal 209/2 Give him a pelt in the eye.
2000 M. Kneale Eng. Passengers (2001) xiv. 410 Often he'd be tempted to give the Reverend a batting, which wouldn't have mattered except that I was sure to get a nasty pelt or two myself.
b. The beating down of rain, snow, etc.; a pelting storm or shower.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > precipitation or atmospheric moisture > rain > [noun] > a or the fall of rain > downpour
floodc1275
spate1513
spout1554
gourder1565
squata1640
downpouring1669
deluge1720
pash1722
plout1740
on-ding1776
pelt1785
soaker1789
pelter1791
teem1793
pour1794
oncome1808
downpour1811
plash1820
slashing1829
plungec1841
dispunging1876
steeper1878
splurge1879
soak1891
drencher1892
toad-strangler1938
the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > precipitation or atmospheric moisture > snow > [noun] > the falling of snow > snow-storm
flight1685
snowstorm1771
pelt1785
the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > precipitation or atmospheric moisture > rain > [noun] > a or the fall of rain > specific manners of falling
mizzling1439
showering1592
pelting1608
peppering1845
pelt1887
1785 R. Hunter Jrnl. 13 July in Quebec to Carolina (1943) (modernized text) iii. 102 Falling from such immense height the water increases in weight as well as velocity, and it requires an amazing strong back to support the violent pelt it gives you.
1824 S. T. Coleridge Coll. Lett. (1971) V. 398 A Pelt of Rain, 1/2 past 2.
1862 J. Skelton Nugæ Criticæ vii. 301 Not the rain of the temperate zone, but a down-pour, a pelt, a water-spout.
1887 D. C. Murray One Trav. Returns vi. 92 The swish and pelt of the rain were heard in pauses.
1927 V. Woolf To Lighthouse i. vi. 51 She bent her head as if to let the pelt of jagged hail..bespatter her unrebuked.
1980 Times 18 June 13/7 The spell was broken by the rustling of the score's enormous leaves and the pelt of rain that destroyed any illusion of children on an empty sunlit beach.
1988 M. Brodsky X in Paris 89 They persisted in the chewing without looking up or to the side or toward the sky darkeningly ravaged by a pelt.
2. An outburst of temper; a rage. Cf. pelt v.1 3a. Now English regional (chiefly midlands and south-western).
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the mind > emotion > anger > manifestation of anger > [noun] > fit(s) or outburst(s) of anger
wratha1200
wrethea1400
hatelc1400
angerc1425
braida1450
fumea1529
passion1530
fustian fume1553
ruff1567
pelt1573
spleen1590
blaze1597
huff1599
blustera1616
dog-flawa1625
overboiling1767
explosion1769
squall1807
blowout1825
flare-up1837
fit1841
bust-up1842
wax1854
Scot1859
pelter1861
ructions1862
performance1864
outfling1865
rise1877
detonation1878
flare-out1879
bait1882
paddy1894
paddywhack1899
wingding1927
wing-dinger1933
eppie1987
1573 G. Harvey Let. 26 Apr. in Let.-bk. (1884) 28 Saiing further in a great pelt, that he mindid not in deed to deni me him self.
1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. iii. 65 The Pope being in this pelt, Ægidius a Spanish Cardinall thus interposed his gravitie.
1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Pelt, a Heat or Chafe. ‘What a Pelt you are in!’
1850 J. Y. Akerman Spring-tide 22 [He'd] put Jack in a girt pelt, coz 'ud stand clost by the zide an hin to watch un.
1880 L. Parr Adam & Eve xxix. 399 Back he comes in a reg'lar pelt: and says, ‘..I'm not goin to foace [force] myself where I'm told I shan't be wanted’.
a1903 G. Ostler in Eng. Dial. Dict. (1903) IV. 463/2 [Oxfordshire] He went off in a great pelt.
1923 J. Read Cluster-O'-Vive 57 Pa'son's wife, she woulden have that, and flounced off out o' house in a regular pult.
1988 J. Lavers Dict. Isle of Wight Dial. 62 Pelt, a rage, passion, fit of temper.
3.
a. (at) full pelt: as fast as possible, at full speed. Cf. full tilt at tilt n.2 3c.
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the world > movement > rate of motion > swiftness > swiftly [phrase] > at full speed
full speed1382
with topsailc1400
at spursa1500
on (also upon) the (spurs or) spur1525
amain1555
a main pace (also speed)1567
full tilt?a1600
upon full stretch1697
at full tilt1713
at (also on) full speed1749
(at) full split1836
full chisel1837
(at) full pelt1841
full swing1843
ventre à terre1848
full out1886
at full lick1889
hell-for-leather1889
all out1895
eyes out1895
flat out1932
1841 T. Hood Tale of Trumpet ii, in New Monthly Mag. June 274 Just fancy a horse that comes full pelt.
1885 J. Payn Talk of Town II. 196 The others..ran on full pelt behind them.
1908 H. G. Wells War in Air v. 146 They're all going south-west by south at full pelt as hard as they can go.
1954 I. Murdoch Under Net xii. 174 As I knelt down he sprang from my shoulder, and together we set off down the road at full pelt.
1994 Guardian 12 Nov. (Weekend Suppl.) 30/4 When a racing driver is going full pelt, he's at something like G-Force 4, which would probably put my neck out of joint.
b. Chiefly English regional (northern). The action of running quickly; a rush. See pelt v.1 6.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > rate of motion > swiftness > going swiftly on foot > [noun] > running
runningOE
runec1330
leapingc1440
pelt1879
1879 in J. H. Nodal & G. Milnar Gloss. Lancashire Dial. (1882) 211 Now then, Bob, doesto yer? Wheer arto for at sich a pelt?
a1882 W. Dickinson Uncollected Literary Remains (1888) 243 Bit many a truth is to tell yet, That comes out to t' front wid a pelt.
1997 A. Donovan in Flamingo Bk. New Sc. Writing 125 If ye kin imagine the class lik a field a racehoarses then he wus gaun at such a pelt that only the first two or three could keep up wi him.
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peltn.3

Brit. /pɛlt/, U.S. /pɛlt/, Scottish English /pɛlt/
Forms: 1500s pelte; English regional (Kent) 1800s– pelt; Scottish pre-1700 1800s– pelt (now Shetland).
Origin: Of uncertain origin.
Etymology: Origin uncertain: see paltry adj. and discussion at that entry, and compare earlier pelting adj.1, peltry n.2
Originally cant. Now rare (Scottish and English regional (Kent) in later use).
Worthless clothes or rags; a piece of this, a rag. Later also more generally: (a piece of) refuse, rubbish, or trash. Also in extended use (see quot. 1932).
ΘΚΠ
the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > refuse or rubbish > [noun] > textile material
ragsa1350
pelt1567
tat1839
the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > refuse or rubbish > [noun]
wrakea1350
outcastingc1350
rammel1370
rubble1376
mullockc1390
refusec1390
filtha1398
outcasta1398
chaff?a1400
rubbishc1400
wastec1430
drossc1440
raff?1440
rascal1440
murgeonc1450
wrack1472
gear1489
garblec1503
scowl1538
raffle1543
baggage1549
garbage1549
peltry1550
gubbins?1553
lastage1553
scruff1559
retraict1575
ross1577
riddings1584
ket1586
scouring1588
pelf1589
offal1598
rummage1598
dog's meat1606
retriment1615
spitling1620
recrement1622
mundungus1637
sordes1640
muskings1649
rejectament1654
offscouring1655
brat1656
relicts1687
offage1727
litter1730
rejectamenta1795
outwale1825
detritus1834
junk1836
wastements1843
croke1847–78
sculch1847
debris1851
rumble1854
flotsam1861
jetsam1861
pelt1880
offcasting1893
rubbishry1894
littering1897
muckings1898
wastage1898
dreck1905
bruck1929
crap1934
garbo1953
clobber1965
dooky1965
grot1971
tippings-
1567 T. Harman Caueat for Commen Cursetors (new ed.) sig. Fiiiiv [At night] many wyll plucke of their smockes, and laye the same vpon them in stede of their vpper sheete, and all her other pelte and trashe vpon her also.
a1585 A. Montgomerie Flyting with Polwart 266 This prouerb, foule pelt, to thee is applyit.
1866 W. Gregor Dial. Banffshire in Trans. Philol. Soc. 18 124 Pelt,..a piece of thick, dirty dress.
1880 Jamieson's Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. (new ed.) Pelt. 1. A piece of strong, coarse cloth, or of a thick, dirty dress; a rag, Banffsh. 2. Anything that is waste or dirty, trash.
1887 W. D. Parish & W. F. Shaw Dict. Kentish Dial. 115 Pelt, rags; rubbish, &c.
1932 A. Horsbøl tr. J. Jakobsen Etymol. Dict. Norn Lang. in Shetland II. 648/1 Pelt, a rag, tatter; a ragged person.
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† peltn.4

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin pelta.
Etymology: < classical Latin pelta pelta n., with omission of the ending. Compare slightly earlier pelta n.
Obsolete. rare.
1. = pelta n. 1a.In quot. 1617 the sense may be the same as pelt n.1 4.
ΘΚΠ
society > armed hostility > military equipment > armour > shield > [noun] > small
bucklera1300
rondelc1300
targeta1400
roundel1538
rundle1562
rondache1591
pelta1600
pelt1617
1617 F. Moryson Itinerary iii. 267 The poorer sort haue only helmets of iron, and thick leather pelts in stead of armor.
1633 J. Fisher Fuimus Troes ii. v. sig. Di Vnder the conduct of Demetiaes Prince, March twice three thousand, arm'd with Pelts and Glaues.
1658 E. Phillips New World Eng. Words Peltiferous,..that carrieth a Pelt which is a kind of Target made of skins.
2. Botany. The pelta of a lichen. Cf. pelta n. 2.
ΘΚΠ
the world > plants > part of plant > leaf > bract, scale, palea, or spathe > [noun]
huskc1400
hosea1450
pannicle1672
surfoil1672
squama1738
palea1753
spatha1753
pelt1759
pelta1760
spath1763
bract1771
scale1776
spathe1785
scalelet1787
glume1789
ramentum1793
rament1813
paleola1829
bracteole1830
bractlet1835
glumelle1836
palea1836
pale1847
periphyll1858
bracket1860
glumella1861
glumellule1861
lodicule1864
bract-sheath1870
palet1871
palea1875
pale1890
prophyllum1890
hypsophyll1895
pale1900
prophyll1902
the world > plants > particular plants > lichen > [noun] > part(s) of
pelt1759
pelta1760
scutellum1760
scyphus1777
shield1796
podetium1814
apothecium1830
cistella1832
rhizine1832
scypha1832
soredium1836
amphigastria1842
gonidium1845
macrogonidium1853
hypothallus1855
crustaceous lichens1856
pycnide1856
perianth1857
isidium1866
thamnium1866
endospore1875
perigynium1882
pseudocyphella1882
thecium1882
parathecium1921
soralium1921
1759 Philos. Trans. 1758 (Royal Soc.) 50 680 On the edges..the parts of fructification are placed, in the form of flattish oblong bodies, in these mosses called shields or pelts.
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peltv.1

Brit. /pɛlt/, U.S. /pɛlt/
Inflections: Past tense and past participle pelted, (regional) pelt;
Forms: late Middle English pelt (past participle), late Middle English pelte (in a late copy), late Middle English– pelt, 1900s– puilt (Scottish, Orkney).
Origin: Of uncertain origin. Apparently a variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: pilt v.
Etymology: Origin uncertain; apparently a variant of pilt v., though the relationship is unexplained (compare γ. forms at that entry). Compare palt v.2Forms of pilt v. with -e- show the usual south-eastern Middle English development of Old English y . Four 15th-cent. texts with pelt(e) (see quots. a1425 at sense 1a, ?c1450 at sense 1b, a1500 at sense 1b, c1500 at sense 1b), all treated by Middle Eng. Dict. as examples of pilten (v.), are from regions in which Old English y is normally represented by i, and can be interpreted as cases of pelt in the sense ‘to deliver repeated blows (to)’. The semantic step to this from ‘to thrust, strike’ is not large.
1.
a. intransitive. To deliver repeated blows to a person or thing; to go on striking vigorously. Also figurative. Now rare.In quot. 1827 transitive: (of a church clock) to indicate (the time) by striking.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > impact > striking > strike or deliver blows [verb (intransitive)] > in a shower
pealc1450
pelta1600
palt1606
a1425 (?c1375) N. Homily Legendary (Harl.) in C. Horstmann Altengl. Legenden (1881) 2nd Ser. 110 (MED) With stanes he bad þai suld him bete And pelt on him with plumes of lede, And with scorpions, till he be ded.
a1600 ( W. Stewart tr. H. Boece Bk. Cron. Scotl. (1858) II. 608 The Scottis..Than peltit on thair powis ane lang space, Quhill tha war slane ilkone in that same place.
1645 J. Milton Colasterion 2 I still was waiting, when these light-armed Refuters would have done pelting at their three Lines.
1674 N. Fairfax Treat. Bulk & Selvedge Ep. Ded. They play'd the Men only, when they had done, in pelting on't with the distaff.
c1817 J. Hogg Tales & Sketches II. 173 The smith..pelting away at his hot iron.
1827 W. Tennant Papistry Storm'd 134 Sanct Salvador's lang strappan steeple Had peltit five hours to the people.
1884 ‘Cruck-a-Leaghan’ & ‘Slieve Gallion’ Lays & Legends N. Irel. 55 Forgin' an' batin' hot metal an' swatin'... They pech'd an' they pelted.
2004 members.tripod.com 7 Apr. (O.E.D. Archive) I flew at him, pelting at him with my fists as hard as I could.
b. transitive. Originally: to deliver repeated blows to (a person or thing), strike repeatedly (now rare, chiefly regional). Later chiefly: spec. to strike or assail with missiles.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > impact > striking > strike [verb (transitive)] > shower with blows
peal?a1425
pelt?c1450
palt1579
bepepper1612
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
pelt?c1450
palt1579
bepelt1622
the world > movement > impact > striking > striking with specific thing > strike with specific thing [verb (transitive)] > strike with an object > with something thrown
pelt1570
pebble1605
plug1971
?c1450 Life St. Cuthbert (1891) l. 4550 With' þair wapens freschly þai foyned, Þe paynyms to dede war pelt.
a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1994) I. xxi. 262 Yit wold I gif of my gold, Yond tratoure to pelt [rhyme swelt, belt, felt] For euer.
c1500 Debate Carpenter's Tools in Rev. Eng. Stud. (1987) 38 456 ‘Wherfore,’ seyd þe belte, ‘With grete strokys I schalle hym pelte.’
1570 Mariage Witte & Sci. v. v. sig. F.i We wyll pelt thee knaue vntill for woe thou pisse.
1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) I. f. 372/2 The Christians inuadyng and entring into the munition incircumspectly, were pelted and pashed with stones by them which stode aboue.
1620 tr. G. Boccaccio Decameron II. viii. iii. f. 63v All the way on the plaine of Mugnone, they did nothing else but pelt him with stones.
1687 A. Lovell tr. J. de Thévenot Trav. into Levant i. 159 A crowd..pelting one another with Cudgels.
1719 D. Defoe Farther Adventures Robinson Crusoe 223 They stood pelting us..with Darts and Arrows.
1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) I. 295 The soldiers..were..insulted and pelted by a mob armed with clubs, sticks, etc.
1835 J. Ross Narr. Second Voy. North-west Passage xlvi. 602 Make snowballs and pelt each other.
1884 Queen Victoria More Leaves 370 We were literally pelted with small nosegays, till the carriage was full of them.
1903 E. W. Prevost in Eng. Dial. Dict. IV. 463/1 [Cumberland] If thoo divvent tak care what thoo's aboot, ah sal hev teh pelt tha.
1927 V. Woolf To Lighthouse ii. vi. 201 Children..pelting each other with handfuls of grass.
1991 M. Duffy Illuminations (1992) 231 On the way to the car they laugh again, bunching up the powdery snow into snowballs and pelting each other.
c. intransitive. To strike at a person or thing repeatedly with missiles. Also figurative.In quot. 1698: to continue firing.
ΘΚΠ
society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > action of propelling missile > assail with missiles [verb (transitive)]
throwc1300
bicker1352
pelt1554
to let at1598
fling1635
1554 Chron. Queen Jane & Queen Mary (1850) 34 The boyes pelted at theym with snowballes; so hatfull was the sight of ther coming in to theym.
1565 Bp. Jewel Let. to Bullinger in J. Strype Ann. Reformation (1709) I. xlv. 457 Here I am again pelted at.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 1 (1623) iii. i. 85 The Bishop, and the Duke of Glosters men,..Haue fill'd their Pockets full of peeble stones; And..Doe pelt so fast at one anothers Pate. View more context for this quotation
a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) i. 17 Much Pen-persecuted, and pelted at with Libellous Pamphlets.
1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia 45 Besides innumerable [shot] in her Rigging, Masts and Sails, from those [ships] that pelted at a distance.
1731 E. Cooke Maryland Muse (ed. 3) 12 [They] Secur'd themselves behind a Barn..Where long they pelted at each other, Tho' none was kill'd in all this Pother.
1848 R. Whately Let. in E. J. Whately Life & Corr. R. Whately (1866) II. 133 I will not set up any proposal like a Shrove-Tuesday cock for you to pelt at.
1876 J. R. Green Stray Stud. Eng. & Italy 46 They lean breathless over the balcony, laughing and pelting at the crowd that laughs and pelts back again.
1958 M. Elwin Landor ii. 35 It was said of him that, while at Rugby, he once pulled a boy's ears for pelting at the rooks in the School Close.
2002 Guyana Chron. (Electronic ed.) 15 July Two of three men, ensnared in the allegation that they pelted at cops who responded to a noise nuisance report in the city.
2. transitive. To drive by force of blows, missiles, etc.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > impelling or driving > impel or drive [verb (transitive)] > impel or drive animates > with blows > and or or missiles
palt1579
pelt1582
1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis i. 15 Too soyl vnacquaynted by tempest horriblye pelted.
1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis iv. 66 I thinck, that the Godhead,..Thee Troian vessels too this youre segnorye pelted.
1627 T. Newman Eunuch v. ix. 109 And for the feare that she may happe to loue him, That's needelesse: you may pelt him out at pleasure.
1700 G. Farquhar Constant Couple v. i. 46 Throws Money among them: They scramble and take it up: He pelting them out, shuts the Door, and returns.
1816 W. Scott Antiquary II. iii. 83 To receive absolution from the very priest, whom, precisely on that day three years, he had assisted to pelt out of the hamlet of Morgenbrodt.
1845 S. Judd Margaret i. xiv. 108 ‘If words won't do, I'll try what vartue [sic] there is in stones,’ said Mr. Shooks, who thereupon..fairly pelted her away.
1885 R. F. Burton tr. Arabian Nights' Entertainm. I. Foreword p. viii Lads and lasses, driving or rather pelting, through the gloaming their sheep and goats.
1939 J. Joyce Finnegans Wake i. 89 So he was pelted out of the coram populo, was he?
1982 Times 26 May 9/3 ‘Liberté!’ cries someone from the crowd, and the royal group are pelted from the platform with the appropriate fruit.
1991 P. Mayle Toujours Provence xvi. 173 No fruits or vegetables are bought without going through trial by touch, and any stallholder who tried to discourage the habit would be pelted out of the market.
3.
†a. intransitive. To throw out abuse; to show signs of anger, to fume. Also transitive with it. Cf. pelt n.2 2, and see also pelting adj.2 1. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > anger > manifestation of anger > show anger [verb (intransitive)] > speak angrily
spitc1386
ragea1400
blowc1475
blustera1494
storm?1553
pelt1594
tear1602
fare1603
to speak or look daggers1603
to blow hot coalsc1626
rant1647
scream1775
to pop off1914
to carry on1947
1594 W. Shakespeare Lucrece sig. K2v Another smotherd, seemes to pelt and sweare. View more context for this quotation
1631 S. Jerome Arraignem. Whole Creature xvi. 281 Like Children in their minoritie, that pelt it, and pule, and cry, for one toy they want.
1673 J. Milton True Relig. 15 If they who differ in matters not essential to belief,..shall stand jarring and pelting at one another, they will be soon routed and subdued.
1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) To Pelt..Also to be in a Chafe or fit of Anger, to fret and fume.
b. transitive. To attack with written or verbal insults; to throw abuse at.Now understood as figurative use of sense 1b.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > invective or abuse > abuse [verb (transitive)]
vilea1300
rebutc1330
revilea1393
arunt1399
stainc1450
brawl1474
vituper1484
rebalk1501
to call (rarely to speak) (all) to naught1542
rattle1542
vituperate1542
bedaub1570
beray1576
bespurt1579
wring1581
misuse1583
caperclaw1589
abuse1592
rail1592
exagitate1593
to shoot atc1595
belabour1596
to scour one's mouth on1598
bespurtle1604
conviciate1604
scandala1616
delitigate1623
betongue1639
bespatter1644
rant1647
palt1648
opprobriatea1657
pelt1658
proscind1659
inveigh1670
clapperclaw1692
blackguard1767
philippize1804
drub1811
foul-mouth1822
bullyrag1823
target1837
barge1841
to light on ——1842
slang1844
villainize1857
slangwhang1880
slam-bang1888
vituperize1894
bad-mouth1941
slag1958
zing1962
to dump on (occasionally all over)1967
1658 J. Harrington Prerogative Pop. Govt. To Rdr. sig. A3 But Machiavel..is deservedly pelted for it by Sermons.
1710 Tatler No. 190. ⁋1 I..have had the Honour to be pelted with several Epistles.
1731 E. Thomas Pylades & Corinna 258 I beseech you pelt her with Letters, and let us have a little Diversion.
1775 S. Johnson in J. Boswell Life Johnson (1831) III. 183 No, sir, if they had wit, they should have kept pelting me with pamphlets.
1864 F. Palgrave Hist. Normandy & Eng. IV. 200 The surrounding multitude..pelted the Prelates with opprobrious epithets.
1894 Dict. National Biogr. at Muggleton, Lodowicke His trial took place at the Old Bailey..before Sir Richard Rainsford.., who pelted him with abuse, and Sir Robert Atkins.
1905 Times 31 July 10/6 [He was] unable to bring himself to use the violent expressions with which the Government were pelted.
1996 Record (Kitchener-Waterloo, Ont.) (Nexis) 8 June g1 I curl up and smile while Streisand and Segal pelt each other with insults.
4.
a. transitive. Of a number of small objects (as raindrops, etc.): to strike repeatedly or in a shower. Also in extended use, of the sun or its rays.
ΚΠ
a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1622) ii. i. 12 The chiding billow seemes to pelt the cloudes. View more context for this quotation
a1627 T. Middleton & W. Rowley Changeling (1653) ii. sig. C3v Ile stand this storm of hail though the stones pelt me.
1782 F. Burney Cecilia III. vi. v. 269 There came a violent shower of hail..Cecilia was..pelted.
1794 J. Byng Diary 22 Sept. in Torrington Diaries (1938) IV. 76 We were pelt'd by the wind and rain.
1847 C. Brontë Jane Eyre II. x. 268 I was following the windings of an unknown road; total obscurity environed me; rain pelted me.
1869 ‘M. Twain’ Innocents Abroad lv. 597 The sun so pelted us that the tears ran down our cheeks once or twice.
1929 D. Hammett Red Harvest xxv. 246 Hunks of things pelted us while we tried to keep from being knocked over by the concussion.
1993 People 11 Jan. 96/2 When marble-size chunks of hail begin pelting the lawn, she becomes positively giddy.
b. intransitive. Esp. of rain or other precipitation: to beat (down) or strike with force or violence. Also occasionally with non-referential it as subject.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > precipitation or atmospheric moisture > rain > rain falls [verb (intransitive)] > beat
pelt1665
slat1838
belt1963
the world > matter > light > naturally occurring light > emit beams (of a luminary) [verb (intransitive)] > begin to shine > shine (of or like the sun)
shinec725
give1600
sun1611
sunshine1627
sunshine1879
pelt1889
belt1942
1665 C. Cotton Scarronnides 35 Hail stones bigger than ones thumb Came pelting down.
1770 R. Griffith Ser. Genuine Lett. between Henry & Francis (ed. 3) IV. 189 The Rain is pelting down against the Windows.
1783 H. B. Dudley Magic Picture iv. iii. 69 Rain water pelting thro' the lattice.
1840 R. H. Dana Two Years before Mast xxxii. 404 A violent gale dead ahead, with rain pelting horizontally.
1863 A. W. Kinglake Invasion of Crimea I. xiv. 255 Their fire pelted straight into the group of the scarfed Deputies.
1889 C. Smith Repentance Paul Wentworth I. ix. 176 There was a big unshaded window..through which the sun still pelted freely.
1916 ‘B. Cable’ Action Front 210 Maxim and rifle bullets were still pelting from somewhere in half enfilade at long range.
1963 A. Ross Australia 63 iv. 101 The clouds pile up again and by the time I turn down towards Merimbula it's pelting.
1990 Advertiser (Adelaide) (Nexis) 6 Sept. You play your last game, it's pelting down with rain, you've got to go out on the oval to train and no-gives a stuff about you.
2000 Church Times 29 Sept. 11/5 They [sc. anglers] are by the banks of the river down the road, huddled under umbrellas or bivouacs, the rain pelting down, and the river a grey, sullen surge in front of them.
5. transitive. To throw (a missile) or continue throwing (missiles) with intent to strike. Frequently with at. Also figurative.More recently, in Caribbean use, simply: to throw.
ΘΚΠ
society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > action of propelling missile > assail with missiles [verb (transitive)] > discharge (missile) > repeatedly
pelt1683
1683 A. Wood Life & Times (1894) III. 42 The rout followed, and pelted stones.
1704 J. Swift Tale of Tub xi. 204 As he walked the Streets, he would have his Pockets loaden with Stones, to pelt at the Signs.
1745 H. Walpole Let. 1 July in Corr. (1974) XXXVII. 200 When all the young Pitts and Lyttletons were pelting oratory at my father.
1767 T. Bridges Burlesque Transl. Homer (ed. 2) II. 225 They kept pelting stones and dirt.
1830 Times 11 Sept. 4/2 The mob pursued the cars, having said freeholders and these deponents on them, and pelted stones at said freeholders.
1853 C. Dickens Bleak House xxxiii. 328 Will somebody hand me anything hard..to pelt at her?
1916 ‘B. Cable’ Action Front 116 A heavy rifle and machine-gun fire which was pelted across from the opposite parts of the British line.
1949 H. T. Kane Louisiana Hayride (1949) iv. 104 In Alexandria stink bombs and rotten eggs were pelted at him.
1969 V.S. Naipaul in S. Brown & J. Wickham Oxf. Bk. Caribbean Short Stories (1999) 213 One time he pelt a box of matches at me, matches scatter all over the place.
2003 Independent (Nexis) 24 Feb. Both the groups chased each other and pelted stones and finally exchanged gunshots.
6. intransitive. To move, run, etc., quickly or vigorously. Also figurative.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > rate of motion > swiftness > going swiftly on foot > go swiftly on foot [verb (intransitive)] > run
yernc900
runOE
rasec1275
canter1765
pelt1831
shin1838
1831 S. Warren in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. June 965/1 I heard the report of a gun.., and pelted away.
1843 C. J. Lever Jack Hinton xxxv Two or three hundred cars, all going as fast as they can pelt.
1872 S. W. Baker Nile Tributaries Abyssinia (new ed.) xix. 332 I saw the rhinoceros pelting away.
1911 J. Conrad Let. 18 July (1956) 229 I am now pelting along with a novel..for the New York Herald.
1934 W. W. Gill Manx Dial. II. 87 Away with him as fast as he could pelt.
1994 Minnesota Monthly May 29/1 The cabin door burst open, and two of the guys in baseball caps pelted out.
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peltv.2

Brit. /pɛlt/, U.S. /pɛlt/
Forms: 1500s pelte, 1500s–1600s 1800s– pelt.
Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: pelt n.1
Etymology: < pelt n.1
1. transitive. To strip the pelt from (an animal); to skin; to fleece. Also: to strip (the pelt or skin) from.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > uncovering > uncover or remove covering from [verb (transitive)] > strip or make bare > strip of skin > skin (an animal)
stripa1425
pelt1568
1568 in J. C. Tingey Rec. City of Norwich (1910) II. 184 He wolde not teach neyther them nor none of ther servauntes to pelte woll onles they wilbe prentyses for iiijer or fyve yeares.
1596 T. Nashe Haue with you to Saffron-Walden sig. M He..presently vntrusseth & pelts the out-side from the lining.
1641 H. Spelman De Sepultura 31 These..doe so shave and pelt the people, that the cry thereof is very grievous.
1881 Marion (Ohio) Daily Star 5 Apr. 4/3 Wm. Walter..has had thirty sheep killed and pelted during the past winter by his hired man.
1919 W. T. Grenfell Labrador Doctor ix. 176 Then having killed, ‘sculped’, and ‘pelted’ the seal, the exciting return to the vessel.
1950 N.Z. Jrnl. Agric. Sept. 256 (caption) Pelting skins on the killing chain.
2003 Washington Post (Nexis) 18 Oct. a1 The average farmed mink..lives about nine months, at which time it is ‘pelted’ and its flesh is rendered to make mink oil for boots.
†2. transitive. To pluck the feathers from. Obsolete. rare.
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the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > uncovering > uncover or remove covering from [verb (transitive)] > strip or make bare > strip of feathers or plumes
deplumec1420
unfeather1483
plume1525
unplume1566
unfledge1598
implume1604
displume1623
pelt1692
ploat1855
1692 R. L'Estrange Fables cvii. 101 A Man took an Eagle, Pelted her Wings, and put her among his Hens.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

† peltv.3

Origin: Of uncertain origin.
Etymology: Origin uncertain. Perhaps compare palter v. 2; it is unlikely that there is any association with pelting adj.1 or any of the other words discussed s.v. paltry adj.
Obsolete.
intransitive. Perhaps: to parley or bargain; to haggle in bargaining. Cf. palter v. 2.
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society > trade and finance > bargaining > bargain [verb (intransitive)]
bargain1525
hucka1529
hucker1548
dodge1568
blockc1570
pelt1579
hack1587
haggle1589
to beat the bargain1591
to beat the market1591
huckster1593
niffera1598
badger1600
scotch1601
palter1611
cheapen1620
higgle1633
tig-tag1643
huckle1644
chaffer1693
chaffer1725
dicker1797
niffer1815
Jew1825
hacker1833
banter1835
higgle-haggle1841
hondle1921
wheel and deal1961
1579 W. Wilkinson Confut. Familye of Loue f. 41 Those men which sell by whole sale haue a quicker dispatch,..than those which stand pelting out untill the end of the market.
1610 J. Higgins in Mirour for Magistrates (new ed.) 166 I found the people nothing prest to pelt, To yeeld, or hostage giue, or tributes pay.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2019).
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