Pelt

Quick meaning: Pelt is a noun meaning (also figuratively) The skin of an animal (especially a goat or sheep) with the hair or wool removed, often in preparation for tanning.

Meaning

(also figuratively) The skin of an animal (especially a goat or sheep) with the hair or wool removed, often in preparation for tanning.

More Meanings

1. The fur or hair of a living animal.
2. A garment made from animal skins.
3. The body of any quarry killed by a hawk; also, a dead bird given to a hawk for food.
4. To remove the skin from (an animal); to skin.
5. Chiefly followed by from: to remove (the skin) from an animal.
6. The skin of an animal with the hair or wool on; either a raw or undressed hide, or a skin preserved with the hair or wool on it (sometimes worn as a garment with minimal modification).
7. (chiefly Ireland, humorous, informal) Human skin, especially when bare; also, a person's hair.

Example Sentences

Near-synonym: coat

My people got themselves pelts and pelts—there was such a trapping as comes but few times in a life. Pelts and pelts, the silver and the grey—fine pelts.

If two [hawks] are flown they are certain to fell the game at once, and the falconer is always flurried by their violent propensity to crab over the "pelt."

The Cauſes and the Signs ſhall next be told, / Of ev'ry Sickneſs that infects the Fold [of sheep]. / A ſcabby Tetter on their pelts vvill ſtick, / VVhen the ravv Rain has pierc'd 'em to the quick: […]

Word Forms

• pelts
• pelting
• pelted
• peltest
• peltedst
• pelteth

Synonyms for pelt

Depending on context, synonyms include coat, bethwack, bang, baste, batter, beat.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include fur, skin, pour, stream, bombard, pepper.

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