pelt
pelt /p'elt/ (pelts pelting pelted)
1 [N-COUNT] usu pl
The pelt of an animal is its skin, which can be used to make clothing or rugs.
...a bed covered with beaver pelts.
= hide
2 [VERB] V n with n
If you pelt someone with things, you throw things at them.
Some of the younger men began to pelt one another with snowballs...
3 [VERB] usu cont, V adv, it V with n, V-ing
If the rain is pelting down, or if it is pelting with rain, it is raining very hard. (INFORMAL)
The rain now was pelting down...
It's pelting with rain...
We drove through pelting rain.
4 [VERB] V prep
If you pelt somewhere, you run there very fast. (INFORMAL)
Without thinking, she pelted down the stairs in her nightgown.
= dash
5 [PHRASE] PHR after v
If you do something full pelt or at full pelt, you do it very quickly indeed. (INFORMAL)
Alice leapt from the car and ran full pelt towards the emergency room...
1 [N-COUNT] usu pl
The pelt of an animal is its skin, which can be used to make clothing or rugs.
...a bed covered with beaver pelts.
= hide
2 [VERB] V n with n
If you pelt someone with things, you throw things at them.
Some of the younger men began to pelt one another with snowballs...
3 [VERB] usu cont, V adv, it V with n, V-ing
If the rain is pelting down, or if it is pelting with rain, it is raining very hard. (INFORMAL)
The rain now was pelting down...
It's pelting with rain...
We drove through pelting rain.
4 [VERB] V prep
If you pelt somewhere, you run there very fast. (INFORMAL)
Without thinking, she pelted down the stairs in her nightgown.
= dash
5 [PHRASE] PHR after v
If you do something full pelt or at full pelt, you do it very quickly indeed. (INFORMAL)
Alice leapt from the car and ran full pelt towards the emergency room...