LekhoriLekhoriThe 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).
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.
The skin of an animal (especially a goat or sheep) with the hair or wool removed, often in preparation for tanning.
A beating or falling down of hailstones, rain, or snow in a shower.
[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.
A blow or stroke from something thrown.
[T]he cripple, in falling, gave him ſuch a good pelt on the head vvith his crutch, that the blood follovved.
A tattered or worthless piece of clothing; a rag.
Anything in a ragged and worthless state; rubbish, trash.
Alternative form of pelta.
To remove the skin from (an animal); to skin.
Let us take a typical case of a mink farmer here in Connecticut who is being forced to throw in the sponge this coming fall. […] He pelts from 3500 to 4000 minks a year and has a huge investment of several thousand dollars tied up in his mink business.
A surname.
The verb is derived from Late Middle English pelt, pelte; further origin uncertain, probably a variant of Late Middle English pilten (“to push, thrust; to strike; to cast down, humble; to incite, indu...
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To bargain for a better deal; to haggle.