Pelt

Definition: Pelt

Pelt

Noun

1. The dressed hairy coat of a mammal.

2. Body covering of a living animal.

Verb

1. Cast, hurl, or throw repeatedly with some missile; "They pelted each other with snowballs".

2. Attack with missiles or questions.

3. Rain heavily; "Put on your rain coat-- it's pouring outside!".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "pelt" was first used: sometime around 1300. (references)

Industry

Literature

Slang in 1811

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Pelt

Attack

Throw a stone, throw stones at; stone, lapidate, pelt; hurl at, hurl against, hurl at the head of; rock

Clothing

Headdress, headgear; chapeau, crush hat, opera hat; kaffiyeh; sombrero, jam, tam-o-shanter, tarboosh, topi, sola topi, pagri, puggaree; cap, hat, beaver hat, coonskin cap; castor, bonnet, tile, wideawake, wimple; nightcap, mobcap, skullcap; hood, coif; capote, calash; kerchief, snood, babushka; head, coiffure; crown; (circle); chignon, pelt, wig, front, peruke, periwig, caftan, turban, fez, shako, csako, busby; kepi, forage cap, bearskin; baseball cap; fishing hat; helmet; mask, domino.

Covering

Integument, tegument; skin, pellicle, fleece, fell, fur, leather, shagreen, hide; pelt, peltry; cordwain; derm; robe, buffalo robe; cuticle, scarfskin, epidermis.

Disorder

Turmoil; ferment; (agitation); to-do, trouble, pudder, pother, row, rumble, disturbance, hubbub, convulsion, tumult, uproar, revolution, riot, rumpus, stour, scramble, brawl, fracas, rhubarb, fight, free-for-all, row, ruction, rumpus, embroilment, melee, spill and pelt, rough and tumble; whirlwind; bear garden, Babel, Saturnalia, donnybrook, Donnybrook Fair, confusion worse confounded, most admired disorder, concordia discors; Bedlam, all hell broke loose; bull in a china shop; all the fat in the fire, diable a' quatre, Devil to pay; pretty kettle of fish; pretty piece of work, pretty piece of business.

Impulse

Strike, knock, hit, tap, rap, slap, flap, dab, pat, thump, beat, blow, bang, slam, dash; punch, thwack, whack; hit hard, strike hard; swap, batter, dowse, baste; pelt, patter, buffet, belabor; fetch one a blow; poke at, pink, lunge, yerk; kick, calcitrate; butt, strike at; (attack); whip c. (punish).

Blow, dint, stroke, knock, tap, rap, slap, smack, pat, dab; fillip; slam, bang; hit, whack, thwack; cuff; squash, dowse, swap, whap, punch, thump, pelt, kick, punce, calcitration; ruade; arietation; cut, thrust, lunge, yerk; carom, carrom, clip, jab, plug, sidewinder, sidewipe, sideswipe.

Punishment

Tar and feather; pelt, stone, lapidate; masthead, keelhaul.

Ship

Ship, bark, barque, brig, snow, hermaphrodite brig; brigantine, barkantine; schooner; topsail schooner, for and aft schooner, three masted schooner; chasse-maree; sloop, cutter, corvette, clipper, foist, yawl, dandy, ketch, smack, lugger, barge, hoy, cat, buss; sailer, sailing vessel; windjammer; steamer, steamboat, steamship, liner, ocean liner, cruisp, flap, dab, pat, thump, beat, blow, bang, slam, dash; punch, thwack, whack; hit hard, strike hard; swap, batter, dowse, baste; pelt, patter, buffet, belabor; fetch one a blow; poke at, pip, ship of the line; destroyer, cruiser, frigate; landing ship, LST; aircraft carrier, carrier, flattop, nuclear powered carrier; submarine, submersible, atomic submarine.

Crosswords: Pelt

Manx (felt).

I got to get into this dude's pelt and crawl around for a few days (Caddyshack; writing credit: Brian Doyle-Murray; Harold Ramis)

As she walks down the runway, I'm gonna pelt Kate Moss with a jelly doughnut (High Society; writing credit: Lisa Albert; Pat Dougherty)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Dreamers & Schemers: Profiles from Carbon County, Wyoming's Past (Van Pelt, Lori, Dreamers and Schemers Series, No. 1.) (reference)

• Helen Van Pelt Wilson's African-Violet Book (reference)

• Linus Van Pelt Blank Journal (reference)

• Pelt (reference)

• The Last Pelt (reference)

  (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Nancy Harms portrays a woman pioneer with a rifle and a coyote pelt. Credit: John Craig.

FSA (Farm Security Administration) supervisor taking bids at muskrat pelt auction. Delacroix Island, Saint Bernard, Louisiana. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "pelt": at full pelt ♦ full pelt ♦ pelt along ♦ pelt at ♦ pelt down ♦ pelt of rain ♦ pelt rot ♦ pelt smb. with stones ♦ pelt with. Additional references.

Ending with "pelt": full-pelt.

Albanian

vrull (Ardor, ardour, burst, career, dash, drive, driving force, elan, flush, furor, fury, ginger, impetuosity, impetus, momentum, pep, pith, raciness, rage, reach, spasm, spurt, tear, tearing, thrust, vehemence, verve, vigor, vigour, vim, violence, zest, zip), vërtik, sulmoj me gur, nxitoj (accelerate, bustle, chase, get a move on, hasten, hie, hotfoot, hurry, hurry up, hustle, post, run, skip, speed up), mësymje (assault, attack, drive, onset, raid, rush, sortie, thrust), mësyj (assault, attack, beset, charge, storm, waylay), lëkurë kafshe (fell, fur, hide, kip), gëzof (coat, fur, hide, Peel, pelage, peltry, skin), bombardoj (bomb, bombard, glide-bomb, ply, pound, prang, shell, zap), bombardim (bombardment, bombing, prang), bie me vërtik. (various references)

Arabic 

‏فرو (fur, pelage), ‏قذف (accuse of, aspersion, calumniate, cast, casting, charge with, defamation, defame, discharge, disgorge, ejaculation, eject, ejectment, emit, expel, extrude, extrusion, fling, libel, malediction, malign, mud, mudslinging, obloquy, pelt with, pitch, projection, puke, row, scandal, slander, speak evil of, strike with, striking, throw, throw out, throwing, toss, vilify, vituperate, vomit), ‏سرع (accelerate, career, chase, fast, force, get a move on, gun, hasten, hurry up, hustle, lollop, pounce, push, quicken, rush, smarten, speed, speed up, step on it, throttle, trot), ‏ضربة (bang, beating, belt, biff, blow, bob, bump, chap, clout, hurt, inflexion, infliction, lash, plug, pulse, shot, smack, sock, strike, stroke, tank, thrust, wipe), ‏ضرب بغير إنقطاع (trounce), ‏جلد الحيوان (hide), ‏جرى بسرعة (scoot), ‏إنطلق بسرعة وعزم, ‏رشق (dart, dart in, hurl, tilt). (various references)

Bulgarian 

нахвърлям се върху (make for, mob, oppugn, round on, sail into, set at, sweep, tuck into, turn on, turn upon), пердашене, проливен дъжд (cataract, drench, drencher, pour, soaker), биене (beating, horsing, lashing, pulsation, thrill, throb, tick, tick-tack), бия (bang, beat, chime, club, curry, feeze, go, hammer, hide, hit, kill, knoll, lace, lather, lay, lick, maul, palpitate, peal, pulsate, pulse, ram, ramrod, ring, rough up, shoot, strike, swingle, thrash, thresh, wallop, welt, whale, whip, whop, zap), бягам (course, cut, flee, lick, run, run away, scurry, shirk), бърз ход (double, lick, spurt, trot), бързам (bustle about, fly, hasten, hie, hurry, hurry up, hustle, nip along, post), пердаша (baste, drub, leather, tan, thrash, towel), замерване, удари, обсипвам с (launch), обстрелвам (fire, pepper, play, pound, search), обстрелване (fire, gunning, hammering), кожа (derm, fell, fur, furring, head, hide, leather, pelage, skin, wrap), човешка кожа (hide, leather), хвърлям по (throw at), удар (bang, bat, blow, buff, buffet, butt, chop, clash, clump, counter, cut, dint, go off, hit, impact, impingement, jab, jar, keystroke, knock, pass, percussion, push, rap, shake, shock, shy, smack, smash, strike, stroke, thrust, touch, turn, whack, whiplash, wipe), замервам с. (various references)

Chinese 

毛皮 , 兽皮. (various references)

Czech

napadnout (attack, blight, contest, impugn, occur), kožešina (skin), házet na, bušit (knock, palpitate, pant, race, throb, thump), bombardovat (bomb, bombard). (various references)

Danish

Bloesse. (various references)

Dutch

bloot (bare, mere, naked, nude, sole, solitary). (various references)

Farsi 

پی درپی زدن , پی درپی ضربت خوردن , پوستک , پوست پشم دار, پوست کندن (Bark, Hide, Hull, Pare, Peel, Rind, Ross, Skin), پوست خام (Rawhide), پرتاب کردن (Hurl, Jaculate, Project, Shoot, Shove, Sling, Slog, Thrust, Unsling), ضربه (Brunt, Hack, Hew, Hook, Impact, Lash, Sock, Strike, Stroke, Thud, Whop), خامسوز (Rawhide), شتاب کردن (Hurry), شتاب (Dispatch, Haste, Hurry, Hustle, Speed, Tilt, Velocity). (various references)

Finnish

vuota (hide), turkki (coat, fur, fur coat, Turkey), talja (block, fleece, fur, hide, skin), nahas. (various references)

French

peau (peel), rosser, fourrure, cuir en tripe, cribler, courir � toute jambes, courir � fond, bombarder (peal). (various references)

German

Fell (coat, fell, fleece, fur, hide, skin). (various references)

Greek 

ρίπτω (cast, dash, hail, hurl, project, shy, throw), λιθοβολώ (stone), τομάρι (skin), δέρμα (dermis, integument, leather, skin). (various references)

Hebrew 

מ�"ירות (celerity, haste, lick, licking, promptitude, quickness, rapidity, rush, speed, swiftness, velocity), י�"וי (hurling, throwing), למ�"ר (hasten, hurry, precipitate, push on, quicken, rush, speed), לי�"ות (cast, hurl, throw), לזרוק (cast, dash, hurl, pitch, sprinkle, throw, toss), ל�"מטיר (pour upon, rain, shower), לר�'ום (lapidate, stone), עור פרו�", זריק�" (cast, injection, projection, sprinkling, throw, throwing, toss), סקיל�" (lapidation, stoning). (various references)

Hungarian

megdobás, irha (dermis, hide, true skin), nyersbőr (fell, hide in the hair), bőr (bag of bones, coat, dermal, fell, hide, leather, mottled skin, skin). (various references)

Indonesian

melempari, kulit bulu. (various references)

Italian

piovere a dirotto (pour down, shower), pelliccia (coat, fur, fur coat), pelle in trippa, pelle (coat, fell, fur, hide, leather, rind, skin), scrosciare (roar), colpo (bang, beat, blow, bout, buffet, bump, chop, clap, clout, dab, dash, fit, flap, flick, hit, hitch, hoot, jab, knock, punch, punishment, putt, rap, shock, shot, slam, slap, sock, splash, stamp, sting, strike, stroke, thump, thwack, whack), colpire (affect, bang, beat, buffet, bump, catch, clout, damage, dazzle, hit, jab, knock, Lam, poke, pound, punch, rap, run across, shock, shoot, slap, smite, sock, spear, strike, strike down, swat, swipe, thwack). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

皮 (bark, fur, hide, leather, shell, skin), 毛皮 (fur, skin). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

かわ (bark, case, fur, good story, hide, leather, part, river, row, shell, side, skin, stream, surroundings), けがわ (fur, skin). (various references)

Manx

sheh (fur, hide, skin), crackan (fur, hide, peel, rind, skin, slough). (various references)

Pig Latin

eltpay.(various references)

Portuguese

peleteria, pele humana (buff), pele em tripa, pedrada, pancada (bang, bash, bat, biff, blow, bob, bop, clout, crack, cram, dint, drub, flaw, flick, knock, lick, milling, plunk, shock, smacker, stinger, strike, stroke, swat), encher (charge, clog, close, deluge, distend, fill, fill in, fill up, flood, full, heap, impregnate, occupy, overspread, pad, people, perfuse, saturate, stuff, stuffing, suffuse, to fill up), atirar pedras (peg), cair (collapse, drop, fall, flump, founder, go down, hang, keel over, lapse, plump, prey, prostrate, sink, sleet, topple), casaco de peles, cobrir (bescreen, blanket, case, clapboard, clothe, coat, come over, cope, cover, cover up, curtain, daub, deck, drape, encase, enfold, face, fleece, incase, mantle, muffle, overgrow, overlay, overlie, overspread, putty, serve, shell, sow, spread, suffuse, to collect, to cover, top, wrap), couro (alligator, fell, leather, peltry, rind, shagreen, skin), couro em tripa, arremesso (casting, fling, flip, heave, pitch, projection, put, shy, throw), despelar, saraivada (volley), galope (gallop, gallopade, galop, lope, scamper, tantivy), crivar. (various references)

Romanian

piele gelatinã, rafalã (a burst of gun-fire, a fire of musketry, enfilade, flaw, flurry, gust, squall), loviturã (attack, bang, bat, beat, beating, blow, box, bump, burglary, butt, calamity, cant, clap, clip, coup, cuff, dash, drive, fib, flap, go, heading, hit, hunch, hurt, jab, jolt, kick, knock, lick, master stroke, push, round, set back, shack, shock, shot, slash, sling, smack, smash, stab, stick, strike, stroke, sweep, thrust), lânã tãbãcãreascã, grabã (cursoriness, dispatch, expedition, forwardness, haste, hastiness, hurry, press, quickness, rapture, readiness, rush, scamper, speed), copleşi (crush, flood, heap, invade, load, overcome, overpower, overwhelm, prostrate, shower, smother, stun, whelm), ciocãni (drum, hammer, knock, Peck, peen, pound, rap), ataca (affect, approach, assault, attack, engage, fall, go at, go for, hit, mug, pirate, Raven, start, tackle, thrust), arunca în. (various references)

Russian 

стук дождя (patter), спешить (be in a hurry, bustle, get a move on, hasten, hie, look alive, make haste, rushed, rushing, speed), сильный удар (bang, bash, biff, clip, humming blow, lick, plunk, polt, slog, staggerer, swinger, swipe, thwack, wallop, whack), ринуться (dart, dash, lunge), шкура (fell, hide, pelage, skin), швыряние, кожа (dermis, hide, leather, skin), колотить (bash, batter, beat, belabour, lambaste, larrup, lick, pounding, pummel, strike, thwack, whack, whop), обрушиться (descend), забрасывать шкура, забрасывать камнями (pelt with rocks, pelt with stones), бросаться (dash, dashed, fling, flounce, fly at, plunge, pop, tear along), бросать грязью, бросание (cast, casting, heave, throwing). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

obasipati (shower), krzno (coat, fell, fur, hide, pelage), koža (bark, fell, hide, leather, skin), bacati na. (various references)

Spanish

piel en tripa, piel (fell, fur, fur coat, fur piece, hide, leather, Peel, rind, skin), pellejo (hide, Peel, skin), tirar en (chuck, shy, yank), lluvia (downpour, drench, rain, rainfall, shower, stream, volley, wet), llover a cántaros (pour, pour cats and dogs, rain cats and dogs), golpe (bang, bat, belt, blow, buffet, concussion, coup, crack, cut, hit, hook, jab, job, kick, knock, poke, prod, shock, shot, slam, smack, strike, stroke, wallop), cuero en tripa, correr a todo meter, colmar (fill up, heap, plaster, shower), apedrear (stone), acribillar (pepper, riddle). (various references)

Swedish

skinn (cast, fell, film, fur, fur of a fox, hide, leather, neat's leather, peltry, skin, skins), bombardera (batter, bomb, bombard, cannonade, plaster, shell). (various references)

Turkish

posteki, post (coat, fell, fur, hide, skin), fırlatmak (aim, blast off, bung, cast, cast away, catapult, chuck, chuck away, dart, eject, fling, hurl, hurtle, launch, project, send, shoot, shoot out, shy, swing, throw, toss, whisk), atma (banishment, bragging, cast, chuck, ejectment, elimination, fling, heave, heaving, hurl, inset, ouster, postpone, projectile, shoot, shy, tell us another, throw, throwing, volley), atmak (affix, beat, blow, blow out, cashier, cast, cast away, cast off, catapult, chuck, chuck away, chuck out, dart, dash, deliver, discharge, doff, draw the longbow, drop, eject, elbow out, elbow smb. out, eliminate, fabricate, fetch, fib, flash, fling, fling away, fling out, fuse, fuze, give a kick, heave, hurl, inflict, insert, invent, junk, launch, let fly, loose, loose off, order off, peg, peg at, pitch, precipitate, project, pulsate, pulse, put, scutch, send, shoot, shoot out, shy, sling, tell a fib, tell lies, throw, throw away, throw into, toss, uncork, utter, void), şiddetli yağma, bardaktan boşanırcasına yağmak (beat down, bucket, come down in sheets, lash, lash down, rain cats and dogs, rain in torrents, teem), dövmek (bash up, baste, batter, beat, beat out, beat up, belabor, belabour, Bray, bruise, cane, castigate, chastise, club, cudgel, drub, dust smb.'s jacket, flail, flog, forge, give a beating, give smb. a thrashing, give the stick, hammer, hide, knock about, knock around, Lam, lam into, lambaste, larrup, lather, lay in, lay into, lick, Mall, maul, pound, punish, scutch, slog, sock, spifflicate, spiflicate, swage, swinge, tan, thrash, thwack, trounce, wallop, whale, whip, whop), dayak atmak (bash up, baste, beat, chastise, clobber, cudgel, curry, drub, flog, give a thrashing, give smb. the works, give the stick, hide, Lam, larrup, lather, lay in, lay into, lick, punish, spifflicate, spiflicate, thrash, trounce, whop), aralıksız vurmak, fırlatma (cast, chuck, fling, hurl, launching, projection, put, shy, throw, throwing, toss), yağdırmak (flood, hail, hail down, heap up, hurl, pour, pour forth, pour out, rain, shower, volley, volley forth, volley out), hız (bat, career, celerity, dispatch, expedition, haste, impetus, lick, pace, quickness, raciness, rapidity, rapidness, speed, swiftness, tilt, velocity), taş atmak (allude, jeer, jibe, throw rock at, throw stone at), taşa tutma (stoning), taşa tutmak (stone), taşlamak (lapidate, rectify, satirize, stone), deri (coriaceous, cutaneous, derm, fell, hide, integument, leather, rind, skin). (various references)

Ukrainian

сильний удар (bang, bash, lick, oner, plunk, slam, slog, spanker, staggerer, swat, swinger, swipe, wallop), шкура (fell, skin), кидати (abandon, aim, buzz, cast, chop, chuck, dart, dash, depart, desert, desolate, elance, fall away, fling, pack in, pitch, plonk, project, sling, throw, throw down, throw up, toss), кидання (cast, casting, fling, heaving, hurling, pitching, projection, put, throw, throwing, toss), накинутися (bear down upon, fasten upon, fly at, go for, hurl oneself), барабанити (drum, ruff, tattoo). (various references)

Vietnamese 

tấm da con lông tấm da sống, sự ném loạn xạ, sự bắn loạn xạ sự trút xuống, sự đập xuống, chạy hết tốc lực. (various references)

Welsh

lluchio (drift, fling, throw). (various references)

mun�ub. (various references)

pelle, pellem, pelles, pelli, pellibus, pellis, pellium, pultare. (various references)

pelete. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "pelt": peltast, peltasts, peltate, pelted, pelter, peltered, peltering, pelters, pelting, peltries, peltry, pelts. (additional references)

Words ending with "pelt": misspelt, outspelt, respelt, spelt. (additional references)

Words containing "pelt": spelter, spelters, spelts, speltz, speltzes. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Pelt" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: elt, eplp, palt, paltz, Parlt, pawlt, pect, peely, peit, pel, pela, pelet, peli, pelk, Pelo, pelot, pelp, pelte, pelty, Peltz, pelv, pelz, peot, Pepto, pewt, peyt, pilg, pilt, pilth, piltt, pilty, ple, plech, pledt, plet, plett, plev, plpt, plt, polyt, ppel, pxel, Qelt, yelt, zelt. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: lept.

-1 letter: let, pet, tel.

-2 letters: el, et, pe.

+1 letter: clept, leapt, lepta, letup, palet, pelts, petal, plate, pleat, slept, spelt, tepal.

+2 letters: aplite, caplet, klepht, lappet, lepton, letups, limpet, palate, palest, palets, pallet, palter, pastel, pelite, pellet, pelmet, pelota, pelted, pelter, peltry, pentyl, penult, pertly, pestle, petals, petrel, petrol, pettle, peyotl, piglet, pintle, piolet, placet, planet, plated, platen, plater, plates, pleats, plenty, plutei, polite, pottle, pullet, replot, septal, spelts, speltz, splent, staple, stipel, temple, tepals, tipple, topple, triple, tupelo, yclept.