v. 1 bombard, shower, bomb, pepper, strafe, batter, shell, assail, assault, attack, US pummel or pommel, belabour, pound, Old-fashioned lay about, Slang US clobber, wallop, paste, work over The hooligans pelted the crowd with sticks and stones 2 Often, pelt down. beat, dash, pound, hit; come down, teem, pour, Colloq rain cats and dogs, bucket down, US rain pitchforks The rain came pelting down just as we were ready to go out 3 pelt along or over. hurry, rush, run, dash, shoot, scoot, scurry The constables pelted along after the escaping thief
n. 4 stroke, blow, whack, hit, smack, slap, thwack, bang, thump, Colloq wallop, belt Chris received a pelt on the head from a rock