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pelting
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Pelting
(gcide) | Pelting \Pel"ting\, a.
Mean; paltry. [Obs.] --Shak.
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Pelting
(gcide) | Pelt \Pelt\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Pelted; p. pr. & vb. n.
Pelting.] [OE. pelten, pulten, pilten, to thrust, throw,
strike; cf. L. pultare, equiv. to pulsare (v. freq. fr.
pellere to drive), and E. pulse a beating.]
1. To strike with something thrown or driven; to assail with
pellets or missiles, as, to pelt with stones; pelted with
hail.
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The chidden billows seem to pelt the clouds. --Shak.
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2. To throw; to use as a missile.
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My Phillis me with pelted apples plies. --Dryden.
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pelting
(wn) | pelting
n 1: anything happening rapidly or in quick successive; "a rain
of bullets"; "a pelting of insults" [syn: rain,
pelting] |
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pelting
(encz) | pelting, n: |
pelting
(wn) | pelting
n 1: anything happening rapidly or in quick successive; "a rain
of bullets"; "a pelting of insults" [syn: rain,
pelting] |
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