Crossword clues for pelting
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pelt \Pelt\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Pelted; p. pr. & vb. n. Pelting.] [OE. pelten, pulten, pilten, to thrust, throw, strike; cf. L. pultare, equiv. to pulsare (v. freq. fr. pellere to drive), and E. pulse a beating.]
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To strike with something thrown or driven; to assail with pellets or missiles, as, to pelt with stones; pelted with hail.
The children billows seem to pelt the clouds.
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To throw; to use as a missile.
My Phillis me with pelted apples plies.
--Dryden.
Pelting \Pel"ting\, a.
Mean; paltry. [Obs.]
--Shak.
Wiktionary
(context obsolete English) mean; paltry n. The act by which somebody or something is pelted. v
(present participle of pelt English)
WordNet
n. anything happening rapidly or in quick successive; "a rain of bullets"; "a pelting of insults" [syn: rain]
Usage examples of "pelting".
The English line had changed a good deal since it was first formed at crack of dawn and the Worcester had moved up two places, the Orion dropping astern for want of foretopgallantmast and then the Renown with her bowsprit gone in the gammoning: the squadron was now sailing in a bow-and-quarter line, pelting along as hard as ever they could go, all their carefully-husbanded stores, cordage, sailcloth and spars now laid out with a reckless prodigality.
Bram had the distinct feeling that the solid parquetry of Nar, which was all that could be seen in any direction, would not have noticed even the most pelting of spring rains in the intensity of their preoccupation.
Lord John was suddenly alone in the pelting rain with his one dreadful enemy spurring towards him.
The rest joined Sunshiny and Jerry in pelting the blasphemer with a dozen flapping, undersize tropical fish.
He stood there with the rain pelting his upturned face, luxuriating in the clean, pure, undistorted moisture.
The satin spread is unrumpled, the rain pelting in through the open window, the wind fresh and cool.
Declan Ewan, the Verger, watched the rain pelting down the hill in eager rivulets, and gathering into a little sea outside the vestry gate.
Ali Khan yelled bloodthirstily and rushed into the tunnel, brandishing his rifle, with everybody pelting after him except the men detailed to saddle the horses.
Yar Ali Khan yelled bloodthirstily and rushed into the tunnel, brandishing his rifle, with everybody pelting after him except the men detailed to saddle the horses.
I went to sleep, fuddled by the wine, to the sound of rain pelting on the roof, cascading down the gutters and over the cobbles.
Some of them found themselves blindly pelting for the stairs, keeping the Sigs back with a crush of bodies, others spilled out irresistibly onto the street, providing her and Lew with cover.
And many came back broken men, tramping in rags, and carrying their swags through the dusty heat of the drought in December or the bitter, pelting rain in the mountains in June.
The Cabinet members had to stop in the pelting rain to wait for a strange procession to pass in front of them: Senator Breckinridge on a horse, looking not in the least triumphant or anything but wet and miserable, followed by a mule dragging a wagon driven by Mathew Brady, the photographer.
Some of the Coquettes were pelting the scaffold with scarlet carnations, their own chosen emblem.
They whirled and beat, lashing hair and garments, pelting the Farers with leaves and twigs and heads of broken grain, chaff to sting and blind the eyes.