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Noun pelt has 2 senses
- fur, pelt - the dressed hairy coat of a mammal
--1 is a kind of animal skin
--1 has particulars:
- hide, pelt, skin - body covering of a living animal
--2 is a kind of body covering
Verb pelt has 3 senses
- pelt, bombard - cast, hurl, or throw repeatedly with some missile; "They pelted each other with snowballs"
--1 is one way to throw
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s somebody with something
- pepper, pelt - attack and bombard with or as if with missiles; "pelt the speaker with questions"
--2 is one way to attack, assail
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s somebody with something
- pour, pelt, stream, rain cats and dogs, rain buckets - rain heavily; "Put on your rain coat-- it's pouring outside!"
--3 is one way to rain, rain down
Sample sentence:
It was pelting all day long
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