| Noun | 1. | pelt - the dressed hairy coat of a mammalbearskin - the pelt of a bear (sometimes used as a rug) beaver - the soft brown fur of the beaver chinchilla - the expensive silvery gray fur of the chinchilla ermine - the expensive white fur of the ermine fox - the gray or reddish-brown fur of a fox lambskin - the skin of a lamb with the wool still on mink - the expensive fur of a mink muskrat - the brown fur of a muskrat otter - the fur of an otter raccoon - the fur of the North American racoon sable - the expensive dark brown fur of the marten sealskin, seal - the pelt or fur (especially the underfur) of a seal; "a coat of seal" | |
| 2. | pelt - body covering of a living animal | |
| Verb | 1. | pelt - cast, hurl, or throw repeatedly with some missile; "They pelted each other with snowballs"throw - project through the air; "throw a frisbee" | |
| 2. | pelt - attack and bombard with or as if with missiles; "pelt the speaker with questions"attack, assail - launch an attack or assault on; begin hostilities or start warfare with; "Hitler attacked Poland on September 1, 1939 and started World War II"; "Serbian forces assailed Bosnian towns all week" | |
| 3. | pelt - rain heavily; "Put on your rain coat-- it's pouring outside!"rain, rain down - precipitate as rain; "If it rains much more, we can expect some flooding" sheet - come down as if in sheets; "The rain was sheeting down during the monsoon" sluice, sluice down - pour as if from a sluice; "An aggressive tide sluiced across the barrier reef" | |