Pelts vs Pell - What's the difference?
pelts | pell |
(pelt)
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.
A fur or hide.
A lined cloak or its lining.
A roll of parchment; a record kept on parchment.
* 1835 , Frederick Devon (editor and translator), Issue Roll of Thomas de Brantingham, Bishop of Exeter, Lord High Treasurer of England, Containing Payments Made out of His Majesty?s Revenue in the 44th Year of King Edward III.: A.D. 1370 ,
(Sussex) A body of water somewhere between a pond and a lake in size.
An upright post, often padded and covered in hide, used to practice strikes with bladed weapons such as swords or glaives.
As a verb pelts
is (pelt).As a noun pell is
pill, tablet or pell can be pullet, young hen.pelts
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Verb
(head)Anagrams
* *pelt
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(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.
pell
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Noun
(en noun)page xi,
- The clerk of the pell' (whose office is in the Lord Treasurer?s gift) keepeth the '''Pells in parchment, called ''Pelles Receptæ'', wherein every teller?s bill, with his name on it, is to be entred; and under every such bill when it is entred, ''recordatur to be written in open court, for a controlment to charge the teller with so much money as in the said bill is set downe.
- He also anciently kept another pell , called Pellis Exitus , wherein every dayes issuing of any the moneys paid into the receipt, was to be entered, and by whom and by what warrant, privy seale, or bill, it was paid.