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| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | pour, rain buckets, rain cats and dogs, stream |
| Type of | rain down, rain |
| Has types | sluice down, sluice, sheet |
| Derivation | pelter |
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | hide, skin |
| Type of | body covering |
Examples of pelt
pelt
The klaxon goes and I pelt down the very steep ramp towards the first obstacle.
From the telegraph.co.uk
He opens his umbrella and the raindrops pelt down on it like deafening bullets.
From the guardian.co.uk
Protesters also pelt Lebanese security forces and Israeli soldiers with stones.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Not that I want to be a wet blanket or soggy Tibetan musk ox pelt or anything.
From the sfgate.com
Some appear to have been arranged evenly in a pelt, while others are in tufts.
From the newscientist.com
An employee carries a blue fox at a pelt farm near the village of Babino, Belarus.
From the washingtonpost.com
So we turn to Colorado's first adventure in world commerce, the beaver-pelt trade.
From the denverpost.com
That includes 4,911 in 2006-07, a peak that coincided with a spike in pelt prices.
From the abcnews.go.com
By 1850, the number had doubled and the town had nine breweries running full-pelt.
From the edp24.co.uk
- Cast, hurl, or throw repeatedly with some missile; "They pelted each other with snowballs"
- Fur: the dressed hairy coat of a mammal
- Hide: body covering of a living animal
- Pepper: attack and bombard with or as if with missiles; "pelt the speaker with questions"
- Pour: rain heavily; "Put on your rain coat-- it's pouring outside!"
- The Pelt is Doseone's first poetry book/CD combo. The CD contains excerpts of the book read aloud by Dose.
- (Pelts (Masters of Horror)) Pelts is the sixth episode of the second season of Masters of Horror based on a short story by F. Paul Wilson.
- 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; The human skin; The body of any quarry killed by the hawk; To bombard, as with missiles; To rain or hail heavily; To throw out words; To beat or hit, especially repeatedly; ...
- (Pelts) Animal skin that still has the fur, hair or wool still attached to it is called Pelts. The advantage of using pelts for seat covers is that they do not shed, like other lesser fur seat covers.
