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1. Cast, hurl, or throw repeatedly with some missile
   "They pelted each other with snowballs";
   - bombard
    
2. Attack and bombard with or as if with missiles
   "pelt the speaker with questions";
   - pepper
    
3. Rain heavily
   "Put on your rain coat-- it's pelting outside!";
   - pour, stream, rain cats and dogs, rain buckets, chuck [Brit], teem, chuck it down [Brit], tip [Brit], bucket [Brit]

1. The dressed hairy coat of a mammal
   - fur
    
2. Body covering of a living animal
   - hide, skin

Derived forms: pelted, pelting, pelts

Type of: animal skin, assail, attack, body covering, rain, rain down, throw, wing

Encyclopedia: Pelt