transcription, транскрипция: [ pelt ]
( pelts, pelting, pelted)
1.
The pelt of an animal is its skin, which can be used to make clothing or rugs.
...a bed covered with beaver pelts.
= hide
N-COUNT : usu pl
2.
If you pelt someone with things, you throw things at them.
Some of the younger men began to pelt one another with snowballs...
VERB : V n with n
3.
If the rain is pelting down , or if it is pelting with rain, it is raining very hard. ( INFORMAL )
The rain now was pelting down...
It’s pelting with rain...
We drove through pelting rain.
VERB : usu cont , V adv , it V with n , V-ing
4.
If you pelt somewhere, you run there very fast. ( INFORMAL )
Without thinking, she pelted down the stairs in her nightgown.
= dash
VERB : V prep
5.
If you do something full pelt or at full pelt , you do it very quickly indeed. ( INFORMAL )
Alice leapt from the car and ran full pelt towards the emergency room...
PHRASE : PHR after v