pelt
Definitions
- The skin of an animal with the hair or wool on; either a raw or undressed hide, or a skin preserved with the hair or wool on it (sometimes worn as a garment with minimal modification).
- A beating or falling down of hailstones, rain, or snow in a shower.
- A tattered or worthless piece of clothing; a rag.
- A small shield, especially one of an approximately elliptical form, or crescent-shaped.
- A surname.
- A blow or stroke from something thrown.
- Anything in a ragged and worthless state; rubbish, trash.
- A flat apothecium with no rim.
- The skin of an animal (especially a goat or sheep) with the hair or wool removed, often in preparation for tanning.
- A verbal insult; a jeer, a jibe, a taunt.
- The fur or hair of a living animal.
- A fit of anger; an outburst, a rage.
- Human skin, especially when bare; also, a person's hair.
- An act of moving quickly; a rush.
- A garment made from animal skins.
- The body of any quarry killed by a hawk; also, a dead bird given to a hawk for food.
Equivalents
41 more languages
བོད་སྐད།གབ་ཀོབ
Cymraegcroen
Suomihakataheitelläheittääihoiskulangetanahasnahkanylkeäpaiskoapieksääpiestäpommittaapudotarusikoidarynnätäsännätäsataasataa kaatamallasyöksyätaljatukkaturkisvuota
עבריתעור
Հայերենմուշտակ
Bahasa Indonesiapelt
ភាសាខ្មែរស្រៈ
한국어모피
Latinapellis
Latviešukažoks
Te Reo Māoriepa
မြန်မာအရေပြား
Românăblană
Slovenčinakožušina
Shqipgëzof
Tagalogratratin
Türkçepost
Examples
“Perhaps the reason⟳ why he [a stuffed fox] seemed in such a ghastly rage was that he did not come⟳ by his death fairly. Otherwise his pelt would not have⟳ been so perfect. And why else was he put⟳ away up there out of sight?—and so magnificent a brush as he had too.”
“My people got themselves pelts and pelts—there was such a trapping as comes but few times in a life. Pelts and pelts, the silver and the grey—fine pelts.”
“Near-synonym: coat”
“The Cauſes and the Signs ſhall next be told, / Of ev'ry Sickneſs that infects the Fold⟳ [of sheep]. / A ſcabby Tetter on their pelts vvill ſtick, / VVhen the ravv Rain⟳ has pierc'd 'em to the quick: […]”
“Put⟳ on your dress, ye shameless witch, standin' there in your pelt I'll take⟳ a strap to, for havin' the conceit out of you, for by your idling had lost me the sup of gin to keep⟳ the breath of life in me. Cover⟳ your scut, or I'll welt the skin off it.”
“If two [hawks] are flown they are certain to fell the game at once, and the falconer is always flurried by their violent propensity to crab over the "pelt."”
“[D]azed and blinded, she bent her head as if to let⟳ the pelt of jagged hail, the drench of dirty water, bespatter her unrebuked.”
“Kas is awakened by the furious pelts of rain⟳ hitting the tin roof, and he rolls over, pulling his sleeping wife tightly into his arms.”
“[T]he cripple, in falling, gave him ſuch a good pelt on the head vvith his crutch, that the blood follovved.”
“The pope [Innocent IV] being in this pelt, Ægidus, a Spanish cardinal, thus interposed his gravity: […]”
“It's a good day off us anyhow, and they're all going south-west by south full pelt as hard as they can go.”
CEFR level
C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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