| NOUN | substance | pelt, fur | the dressed hairy coat of a mammal |
|---|---|---|---|
| animal | pelt, hide, skin | body covering of a living animal | |
| VERB | contact | pelt, bombard | cast, hurl, or throw repeatedly with some missile |
| competition | pelt, pepper | attack and bombard with or as if with missiles | |
| weather | pelt, pour, stream, rain cats and dogs, rain buckets | rain heavily |
| Sounds | peh'lt | |
|---|---|---|
| Rhymes | belt ... welt: 13 rhymes with ehlt... | |
| Meaning | The dressed hairy coat of a mammal. | |
|---|---|---|
| Synonym | fur | |
| Narrower | astrakhan | The fur of young lambs |
| bearskin | The pelt of a bear (sometimes used as a rug) | |
| beaver, beaver fur | The soft brown fur of the beaver | |
| chinchilla | The expensive silvery grey fur of the chinchilla | |
| ermine | The expensive white fur of the ermine | |
| fox | The grey or reddish-brown fur of a fox | |
| lambskin | The skin of a lamb with the wool still on | |
| lapin, rabbit | The fur of a rabbit | |
| leopard | The pelt of a leopard | |
| mink | The expensive fur of a mink | |
| muskrat, muskrat fur | 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 | |
| seal, sealskin | The pelt or fur (especially the underfur) of a seal | |
| squirrel | The fur of a squirrel | |
| Broader | animal skin | The outer covering of an animal |
| Spanish | cuero, piel | |
| Catalan | pell | |
| Meaning | body covering of a living animal. | |
|---|---|---|
| Synonyms | hide, skin | |
| Broader | body covering | Any covering for the body or a body part |
| Spanish | pellejo, piel | |
| Catalan | cuir, pell | |
| Meaning | cast, hurl, or throw repeatedly with some missile. | |
|---|---|---|
| Pattern | Somebody ----s somebody with something | |
| Example | "They pelted each other with snowballs" | |
| Synonym | bombard | |
| Narrower | egg | Throw eggs at |
| lapidate | Throw stones at | |
| snowball | Throw snowballs at | |
| Broader | throw | Propel through the air |
| Spanish | bombardear | |
| Catalan | bombardejar | |
| Nouns | pelter | a thrower of missiles |
| pelting | anything happening rapidly or in quick successive | |
| Meaning | attack and bombard with or as if with missiles. | |
|---|---|---|
| Pattern | Somebody ----s somebody with something | |
| Example | "pelt the speaker with questions" | |
| Synonym | pepper | |
| Entails | throw | Propel through the air |
| Broader | attack, assail | launch an attack or assault on |
| Spanish | acribillar | |
| Nouns | pelter | a thrower of missiles |
| Meaning | rain heavily. | |
|---|---|---|
| Pattern | It is ----ing | |
| Model | It was pelting all day long | |
| Synonyms | pour, stream, rain cats and dogs, rain buckets | |
| Narrower | sheet | come down as if in sheets |
| sluice, sluice down | pour as if from a sluice | |
| Broader | rain, rain down | precipitate as rain |
| Spanish | diluviar, llover a cántaros | |
| Catalan | diluviar, ploure a bots i barrals | |
| Nouns | pelter | a heavy rain |
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