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pelt Meaning, Definition, Pronunciation, Grammar & Synonyms❤️

0 to throw a number of things quickly at someone or something:
- We saw rioters pelting police with bricks and bottles.
1 to run fast:
- The children pelted down the bank.
2 the skin and fur of a dead animal, or the skin with the fur removed
3 running as fast as possible
4 to throw a number of things quickly at someone or something:
- [ T ] Youths tried to pelt them with stones.
5 the skin and fur of a dead animal, or the skin with the fur removed:
- rabbit pelts

After two hours, the police were tired of being pushed and pelted with house bricks.
Over eighty per cent of pelts were exported.
A riot erupted as market women pelted the foreign troops with their goods and tried to shame them by removing their clothes.
Later we were proud to read in a trade paper that he was" the finest judge of pickled pelts in the world".
Nevertheless, the unmistakable impression created is that the police violence was justified: they were" tired of being pushed and pelted with house bricks" for 2 hours.
Because of his clear understanding of the most efficient means of hunting, it seems certain that he was the most successful otter hunter, securing more than 1000 pelts in all.
We are dealing here with three separate aspects: cruelty, consumer fraud and recently we discovered that these pelts are toxic as well.
He wears on his back the full pelt of a reptilian monster with four flame eyebrows, paw wings, pug nose above a long upper jaw, and open gum brackets.