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Definition of Pelts

Pelt
Pelt Pelt, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Pelted; p. pr. & vb. n. Pelting.] [OE. pelten, pulten, pilten, to thrust, throw, strike; cf. L. pultare, equiv. to pulsare (v. freq. fr. pellere to drive), and E. pulse a beating.] 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.
Pelt
Pelt Pelt, v. i. 1. To throw missiles. --Shak. 2. To throw out words. [Obs.] Another smothered seems to peltand swear. --Shak.
Pelt
Pelt Pelt, n. A blow or stroke from something thrown.
Pelt
Pelt Pelt, n. [Cf. G. pelz a pelt, fur, fr. OF. pelice, F. pelisse (see Pelisse); or perh. shortened fr. peltry.] 1. 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. --Sir T. Browne. Raw pelts clapped about them for their clothes. --Fuller. 2. The human skin. [Jocose] --Dryden. 3. (Falconry) The body of any quarry killed by the hawk. Pelt rot, a disease affecting the hair or wool of a beast.

Meaning of Pelts from wikipedia

- animal pelts where the hair is left on the animal's processed skin. In contrast, making leather involves removing the hair from the hide or pelt and using...
- Look up pelt or pelting in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A pelt is the fur and skin of an animal. Pelt or Pelts may also refer to: Pelt (band), American...
- Van Pelt is a Dutch toponymic surname meaning "from Pelt". Pelt is a region in Belgian Limburg including the modern muni****lity of Overpelt, It could...
- any living heirs, Pelt established a home for 16 elderly men and women, Pelts Plejestiftelse (or Den Peltske Stiftelse), which was located in Larslejsstræde...
- a "nicely dressed eel". Beaver pelts were used to make hats; felters would remove the guard hairs. The number of pelts needed depended on the type of...
- The Pelt is the first poetry book/CD by American indie hip hop artist Doseone. It was released in 2003. The CD contains excerpts of the book read aloud...
- cuisine. Very young or even fetal Karakul lambs are prized for pelts. Newborn karakul sheep pelts are called karakul (also spelled caracul), swakara (portmanteau...
- Shlemovich Pelts (August 11, 1937 – October 10, 2022) was a Ukrainian-Canadian chess master. Pelts was born in Odessa on August 11, 1937. In 1959, Pelts founded...
- Pelt (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈpɛlt] ) is a muni****lity in the Belgian province of Limburg. It arose on 1 January 2019 from the merging of the muni****lities...
- trade of wild red foxes in 1985–86 was 1,543,995 pelts. Foxes amounted to 45% of US wild-caught pelts worth $50 million. North American red foxes, particularly...