Meaning of pelt | Babel Free

Definitions

1. 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).
2. A beating or falling down of hailstones, rain, or snow in a shower.
   transitive
3. A tattered or worthless piece of clothing; a rag.
   Scotland, transitive
4. A small shield, especially one of an approximately elliptical form, or crescent-shaped.
   historical, obsolete, rare, transitive
5. A surname.
6. A blow or stroke from something thrown.
   transitive
7. Anything in a ragged and worthless state; rubbish, trash.
   Scotland, broadly, transitive
8. A flat apothecium with no rim.
   obsolete, rare, transitive
9. The skin of an animal (especially a goat or sheep) with the hair or wool removed, often in preparation for tanning.
   also, figuratively
10. A verbal insult; a jeer, a jibe, a taunt.
    figuratively, transitive
11. The fur or hair of a living animal.
12. A fit of anger; an outburst, a rage.
    figuratively, transitive
13. Human skin, especially when bare; also, a person's hair.
    Ireland, humorous, informal
14. An act of moving quickly; a rush.
    transitive
15. A garment made from animal skins.
    obsolete
16. The body of any quarry killed by a hawk; also, a dead bird given to a hawk for food.
    obsolete

Equivalents

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.”

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