1. Anything happening rapidly or in quick successive
   "a pelting of insults"
   - rain

1. Cast, hurl, or throw repeatedly with some missile
   "They pelted each other with snowballs"
   - bombard 
2. Attack and bombard with or as if with missiles
   "pelt the speaker with questions"
   - pepper 
3. Rain heavily
   - pour, stream, rain cats and dogs, rain buckets

Derived forms: peltings

See also: pelter

Type of: assail, attack, chronological sequence, chronological succession, rain, rain down, sequence, succession, successiveness, throw

Encyclopedia: Pelt

• throw-weight
• throwaway
• throwback
• thrower
• throwing away
• throwing board
• throwing stick
• thrown
• thrown and twisted
• thrown-away
• throwster
• thru
• thrum
• thrush
• thrush nightingale
• thrust
• thrust ahead
• thrust bearing
• thrust fault
• thrust out
• thrust stage
• thruster
• thrusting
• thruway
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