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- noun Plural form of
pelter .
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Examples
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I think they expect when they perform at that level and lose in that fashion they're to going to receive pelters, that's the nature of professional sport and its all about how you react to those pelters which is the real key, "he added.
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Just as Israel cannot call itself a democracy while bulldozing Palestinian homes with impunity, India cannot claim the same while subjecting Kashmiris to draconian curfews, Gestapo tactics and disproportionate levels of military force, as the state employs overwhelming violence against Kashmir's young "stone pelters".
Michael Hughes: U.S. silence on Kashmir emboldens India's nationalists, empowers Taliban Michael Hughes 2010
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Just as Israel cannot call itself a democracy while bulldozing Palestinian homes with impunity, India cannot claim the same while subjecting Kashmiris to draconian curfews, Gestapo tactics and disproportionate levels of military force, as the state employs overwhelming violence against Kashmir's young "stone pelters".
Michael Hughes: U.S. silence on Kashmir emboldens India's nationalists, empowers Taliban Michael Hughes 2010
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Rooney is getting pelters from the home crowd every time he touches the ball.
Rangers v Manchester United - as it happened Scott Murray 2010
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Just as Israel cannot call itself a democracy while bulldozing Palestinian homes with impunity, India cannot claim the same while subjecting Kashmiris to draconian curfews, Gestapo tactics and disproportionate levels of military force, as the state employs overwhelming violence against Kashmir's young "stone pelters".
Michael Hughes: U.S. silence on Kashmir emboldens India's nationalists, empowers Taliban Michael Hughes 2010
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"Jefers-pelters!" murmured the driver, scratching his head.
How Janice Day Won Helen Beecher Long
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Jack got the liquor that twisted his brain, that led him astray, that made him a thief ---- Jefers-pelters! sounds jest like 'The Haouse That
How Janice Day Won Helen Beecher Long
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And with Mr. Mercury creepin 'down to thirty below -- jefers-pelters!
How Janice Day Won Helen Beecher Long
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This pelting with imputations of forgery may be very fine fun to the pelters, but it is death to him.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 47, September, 1861 Various
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Jefers-pelters! he could _back_ clean up town with _this_ load,
How Janice Day Won Helen Beecher Long
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