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pelt
1. noun
a) 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.
b) The human skin.
See Also: fell, pelisse, pell, pellagra, pellage, pellicle, peltry, surplice
2. verb
a) To bombard, as with missiles. <! copied from GCide, please put other defs if you can!

They pelted the attacking army with bullets.

b) To rain or hail heavily.

Its pelting down out there!


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