英语词汇“pelt”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

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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