Pelt vs Pour - What's the difference?
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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)
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.
To cause to flow in a stream, as a liquid or anything flowing like a liquid, either out of a vessel or into it.
To send forth as in a stream or a flood; to emit; to let escape freely or wholly.
* The Bible, 1 i. 15.
* The Bible, vii. 8
* (William Shakespeare)
* (John Milton)
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-10, volume=408, issue=8848, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= To send forth from, as in a stream; to discharge uninterruptedly.
* A. Pope
To flow, pass or issue in or as a stream; to fall continuously and abundantly; as, the rain pours.
* Gay
* {{quote-news, year=2011, date=January 8, author=Chris Bevan, work=BBC
, title= The act of pouring.
Something, or an amount, poured.
* 2003 , John Brian Newman, B. S. Choo, Advanced concrete technology: Volume 2
(colloquial) A stream, or something like a stream; especially a flood of precipitation.
In transitive terms the difference between pelt and pour
is that pelt is to beat or hit, especially repeatedly while pour is to send forth from, as in a stream; to discharge uninterruptedly.In intransitive terms the difference between pelt and pour
is that pelt is to throw out words while pour is to flow, pass or issue in or as a stream; to fall continuously and abundantly; as, the rain pours.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.
pour
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) pouren, . Displaced native Middle English schenchen, ).Verb
(en verb)- Ihave poured out my soul before the Lord.
- Now will I shortly pour out my fury upon thee.
- London doth pour out her citizens!
- Wherefore did Nature pour her bounties forth With such a full and unwithdrawing hand?
Can China clean up fast enough?, passage=At the same time, it is pouring money into cleaning up the country.}}
- Is it for thee the linnet pours his throat?
- In the rude throng pour on with furious pace.
Arsenal 1-1 Leeds, passage=In a breathless finish Arsenal poured forward looking for a winner but Leeds held out for a deserved replay after Bendtner wastefully fired wide and Schmeichel acrobatically kept out Denilson's rasping effort}}
Synonyms
* (pour a drink) shink, skinkDerived terms
* pourable * pourer * pouringly * inpour * outpour * pour one's heart outNoun
(en noun)- Over this time period, the first concrete pour has not only lost workability but has started to set so that it is no longer affected by the action of a vibrator.
- A pour of rain. --Miss Ferrier.
