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Pelt vs Pels - What's the difference?

pelt | pels |

As nouns the difference between pelt and pels

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 woolly covering on it while pels is plural of lang=en.

As a verb pelt

is to bombard, as with missiles.

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.
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  • *: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)
  • 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 ----

    pels

    English

    Noun

    (head)
  • Anagrams

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