pelt
pelt
/pelt/
1 transitive pelt somebody (with something) to attack somebody by throwing things at them The children pelted him with snowballs.
We were pelted with rotten tomatoes.
By now the rain was pelting down.
I drove home with the rain pelting through the window.
Raindrops the size of golf balls were pelting down on her.
3 intransitive + adv./prep. (informal) to run somewhere very fast We pelted down the hill after the car.
pelt
/pelt/
the skin of an animal, especially with the fur or hair still on it
Idioms
Word Origin
verb late 15th cent.: of unknown origin.
noun Middle English: either from obsolete pellet ‘skin’, from an Old French diminutive of pel ‘skin’, from Latin pellis ‘skin’, or a back-formation from peltry.
e.g.
Pelts are sellin' like crazy these days. You could make yourself some good money. いまは毛皮の需要があがってて高く売れるらしいぜ (/yupeco/『ゴールデンカムイ』1話)