Pelt vs Mantle - What's the difference?
pelt | mantle |
The skin of a beast with the hair on; a raw or undressed hide; a skin preserved]] with the hairy or [[wool, woolly covering on it.
*
*:They burned the old gun that used to stand in the dark corner up in the garret, close to the stuffed fox that always grinned so fiercely. Perhaps the reason why he seemed in such a ghastly rage was that he did not come by his death fairly. Otherwise his pelt would not have been so perfect. And why else was he put away up there out of sight?—and so magnificent a brush as he had too..
The body of any quarry killed by a hawk.
(lb) Human skin.
:(Dryden)
To bombard, as with missiles.
To throw; to use as a missile.
To heavily.
To throw out words.
* Shakespeare
To beat or hit, especially repeatedly.
To move rapidly, especially in or on a conveyance.
A piece of clothing somewhat like an open robe or cloak, especially that worn by Orthodox bishops.
(figuratively) A figurative garment representing authority or status, capable of affording protection.
(figuratively) Anything that covers or conceals something else; a cloak.
* (rfdate) (Shakespeare) (King Lear)
(zoology) The body wall of a mollusc, from which the shell is secreted.
* 1990 , Daniel L. Gilbert, William J. Adelman, John M. Arnold (editors), Squid as Experimental Animals , page 71 (where there is an illustration):
(zoology) The back of a bird together with the folded wings.
The zone of hot gases around a flame; the gauzy incandescent covering of a gas lamp.
The outer wall and casing of a blast furnace, above the hearth.
A penstock for a water wheel.
(anatomy) The cerebral cortex.
(geology) The layer between the Earth's core and crust.
A fireplace shelf;
(heraldry) A mantling.
To cover or conceal (something); to cloak; to disguise.
To become covered or concealed.
(of face, cheeks) To flush.
* 1913 ,
As a noun pelt
is the skin of a beast with the hair on; a raw or undressed hide; a skin preserved]] with the hairy or [[wool|woolly covering on it or pelt can be a blow or stroke from something thrown.As a verb pelt
is to bombard, as with missiles.As a proper noun mantle is
.pelt
English
(wikipedia pelt)Etymology 1
From (etyl) pelette, diminutive of from the same Old French and Latin roots.Noun
(en noun)Etymology 2
Possible contraction of pelletVerb
(en verb)- They pelted the attacking army with bullets.
- The children pelted apples at us.
- It's pelting down out there!
- Another smothered seems to pelt and swear.
- The boy pelted down the hill on his toboggan.
mantle
English
(wikipedia mantle)Noun
(en noun)- At the meeting, she finally assumed the mantle of leadership of the party.
- The movement strove to put women under the protective mantle of civil rights laws.
- the green mantle of the standing pool
- Before copulation in Loligo'', the male swims beside and slightly below about his potential mate and flashes his chromatophores. He grasps the female from slightly below about the mid-mantle region and positions himself so his arms are close to the opening of her mantle'''. He then reaches into his ' mantle with his hectocotylus and picks up several spermatophores from his penis.
- (Raymond)
Derived terms
* assume the mantle * gas mantle * mantlepiece * mantle-tree * upper mantleVerb
(mantl)- (Shakespeare)
- The blood still mantled below her ears; she bent her head in shame of her humility.