pelt

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. The skin of an animal with the fur or hair still on it.
2. n. A stripped animal skin ready for tanning.
3. v. To strike or assail repeatedly with or as if with blows or missiles; bombard: pelted each other with snowballs.
4. v. To cast, hurl, or throw (missiles): children who pelted stones at the neighbors' windows.
5. v. To strike repeatedly: Hailstones pelted the tent.
6. v. To beat or strike heavily and repeatedly.
7. v. To move at a vigorous gait.
8. n. A sharp blow; a whack.
9. n. A rapid pace: galloped away at a pelt.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. To push; thrust.
2. To assail with missiles; assail or strike with something thrown.
3. To throw; cast; hurl.
4. To throw missiles.
5. To fall or descend (on one) with violence or persistency: as, a pelting rain.
6. To proceed rapidly and without intermission; hurry on: as, the horses pelted along at a fine pace.
7. To bandy words; use abusive language; be in a passion.
8. To submit; become paltry.
9. n. A blow or stroke from something thrown.
10. n. Rage; anger; passion.
11. n. The skin of a beast with the hair on it, especially of one of the smaller animals used in furriery; specifically, a fur-skin dried but not prepared for use as fur; a raw hide: sometimes applied to a garment made from such a skin.
12. n. The mangled quarry of a hawk; the dead body of a bird killed by a hawk.
13. n. Soft leather used for covering inking-pelds.
14. n. Synonyms Hide, etc. See skin.
15. To skin; fleece; pluck the pelt from.

Wiktionary

1. n. The skin of a beast with the hair on; a raw or undressed hide; a skin preserved with the hairy or woolly covering on it.
2. n. The body of any quarry killed by a hawk.
3. n. humorous Human skin.
4. v. transitive To bombard, as with missiles.
5. v. intransitive To rain or hail heavily.
6. v. To throw out words.
7. v. transitive To beat or hit, especially repeatedly.
8. v. To move rapidly, especially in or on a conveyance.
9. n. A blow or stroke from something thrown.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. The skin of a beast with the hair on; a raw or undressed hide; a skin preserved with the hairy or woolly covering on it. See 4th fell.
2. n. Jocose The human skin.
3. n. (Falconry) The body of any quarry killed by the hawk.
4. v. To strike with something thrown or driven; to assail with pellets or missiles
5. v. To throw; to use as a missile.
6. v. To throw missiles.
7. v. obsolete To throw out words.
8. n. A blow or stroke from something thrown.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. attack and bombard with or as if with missiles
2. v. cast, hurl, or throw repeatedly with some missile
3. v. rain heavily
4. n. body covering of a living animal
5. n. the dressed hairy coat of a mammal