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Pelt vs Outskin - What's the difference?

pelt | outskin |

In lang=en terms the difference between pelt and outskin

is that pelt is to beat or hit, especially repeatedly while outskin is to surpass in skinning.

As nouns the difference between pelt and outskin

is that 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 while outskin is an outer skin; surface.

As verbs the difference between pelt and outskin

is that pelt is to bombard, as with missiles while outskin is to surpass in skinning.

pelt

English

(wikipedia pelt)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) pelette, diminutive of from the same Old French and Latin roots.

Noun

(en noun)
  • 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)
    • Related terms
    * fell * pelisse * pell * pellagra * pellage * pellicle * peltry * surplice

    Etymology 2

    Possible contraction of pellet

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To bombard, as with missiles.
    • They pelted the attacking army with bullets.
  • To throw; to use as a missile.
    • The children pelted apples at us.
  • To heavily.
    • It's pelting down out there!
  • To throw out words.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Another smothered seems to pelt and swear.
  • To beat or hit, especially repeatedly.
  • To move rapidly, especially in or on a conveyance.
    • The boy pelted down the hill on his toboggan.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A blow or stroke from something thrown.

    • Anagrams

    * (Webster 1913) Webster 1913 ----

    outskin

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An outer skin; surface.
  • *1884 , Brotherhood of locomotive firemen and enginemen's magazine: Volume 8:
    • One way to prepare onion flavoring for a vegetable soup is to take a large onion, remove the outskin , then stick cloves into the onion, and bake until it is nicely browned.
  • *1896 , Sir John Pentland Mahaffy, Greek life and thought from the death of Alexander to the Roman conquest :
    • But this is only touching the outskin of a very curious subject, to which I hope, some day, to return.
  • *1948 , Charles Matthias Goethe, Geogardening :
    • The crust therefore went the way of the onion's outskin .
  • *1962 , Aircraft production: precision engineering : light engineering: Volume 24:
    • Tacking the outskin to the frame of the inner skin during final assembly [...]
  • *2005 , Samuel Ngun Ling, Communicating Christ in Myanmar :
    • Could the outskin or husk of the Christian message that is the Western and Graeco-Roman [...]
  • (anatomy) The external skin.
  • *1938 , George Smith, George Henry Lewes, William Makepeace Thackeray, The Cornhill magazine: Volume 158 :
    • They suffered from outskin -chafed necks and wrists, [...]
  • A skin or pelt of some special description.

    • Verb

    (outskinn)
  • To surpass in skinning.
  • *2009 , Mike Keenan, The Shadows of Horses :
    • There was a big woman in the camp and she could outskin any of the men.