Crossword clues for pelter
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pelter \Pel"ter\, n.
A pinchpenny; a mean, sordid person; a miser; a skinflint.
[Obs.] ``Let such pelters prate.''
--Gascoigne.
Pelter \Pelt"er\, n. One who pelts.
Wiktionary
n. 1 One who pelts. 2 A pinchpenny; a mean, sordid person; a miser; a skinflint.
WordNet
n. a heavy rain [syn: downpour, cloudburst, deluge, waterspout, torrent, soaker]
a thrower of missiles; "the police were too busy to chase the pelters"
Usage examples of "pelter".
Still, there may be other Pelters besides those related to that scoundrel of a broker.
Then he was told about the Pelters and about Japson, and he agreed with the Rovers that he had best try to locate Barton Pelter and his uncle without delay.
Then it pelters out of reason, for the downpour day and night Nearly sweeps the population to the Great Australian Bight.
The brokers were Pelter, Japson Company, and it was not long before Dick and his brothers discovered that Pelter and Japson were in league with Josiah Crabtree.
And it may be as well to state here that in due course of time Jesse Pelter and his partner in crime, Grimes, alias Haywood, were tried and sentenced to long terms in prison.