pelt

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With the free trader a pelt is a pelt, prime or unprime, it makes no difference.

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  1. noun The skin of an animal with the fur or hair still on it.
  2. noun A stripped animal skin ready for tanning.
  3. transitive verb To strike or assail repeatedly with or as if with blows or missiles; bombard: pelted each other with snowballs.
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  • 'Just the price of his pelt, and that will bring sixty-five cents,' was the answer. —  A Study Of Hawthorne
  • They were the soft grey of a rabbit's pelt, and the glints of gold made them warm and welcoming. —  The Hawk Eternal
  • The one aim was to kill the quarry and take its pelt, at sixty quid the time. —  Flashman And The Redskins
  • The least of ripples went across Targovi's pelt, and underneath. —  The Game Of Empire
  • With the free trader a pelt is a pelt, prime or unprime, it makes no difference. —  Connie Morgan in the Fur Country
 

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  1. Middle English, probably from Old French pelete, diminutive of pel, skin, from Latin pellis; see pel-3 in Indo-European roots.
  2. Middle English pelten, variant of pilten, perhaps ultimately from Latin pultāre, to beat, variant of pulsāre, frequentative of pellere, to strike; see pel-5 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English pelten, pilten, pulten, apparently from Latin pultare, beat, strike, knock, collateral form of pulsare, push, strike, beat, batter: see pulsate, pulse, v. It is commonly supposed that pelt is a contracted form of pellet, v., not found in sense of ‘pelt,’ but cf. equivalent F. peloter, beat, handle roughly, Old French peloter, play at ball, toss like a ball, = Italian pelottare, pilottare, thump, cuff, baste (Florio); but the required orig. Middle English *peleten would not contract in Middle English to pelten, nor produce the form pulten. Cf. palt, polt.
  2. from pelt, v.
  3. from Middle English pelt, apparently developed from pelter, peltry regarded as from pelt + -er or -ry: see pelter, peltry. The G. pelz, fur, skin, is a different word, Middle High German pelz, belz, belliz, Old High German Pelliz = Anglo-Saxon pylce (from English Pilch), from Middle Latin Pellicea, a skin, a furred robe, later ult. pilch and pelisse: see pilch, pelisse. Cf. Pell.
  4. pelt, n.
 

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