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Thesaurus: pelt

The skin of a beast with the hair on; a raw or undressed hide; a skin preserved with the hairy or woolly covering on it. See 4th Fell.

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  1. n. The skin of a beast with the hair on; a raw or undressed hide; a skin preserved with the hairy or woolly covering on it. See 4th Fell.
  2. n. The human skin.
  3. n. The body of any quarry killed by the hawk.
  4. v. t. To strike with something thrown or driven; to assail with pellets or missiles, as, to pelt with stones; pelted with hail.
  5. v. t. To throw; to use as a missile.
  6. v. i. To throw missiles.
  7. v. i. To throw out words.
  8. n. A blow or stroke from something thrown.
  9. n. the dressed hairy coat of a mammal
  10. n. body covering of a living animal
  11. v. cast, hurl, or throw repeatedly with some missile
  12. v. attack and bombard with or as if with missiles