Pelt

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim 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).

   “Perhaps the reason why he [a stuffed fox] 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.”

2. isim The skin of an animal (especially a goat or sheep) with the hair or wool removed, often in preparation for tanning.
3. isim The fur or hair of a living animal.

   “Near-synonym: coat”

4. isim Human skin, especially when bare; also, a person's hair.

   “Put on your dress, ye shameless witch, standin' there in your pelt I'll take a strap to, for havin' the conceit out of you, for by your idling had lost me the sup of gin to keep the breath of life in me. Cover your scut, or I'll welt the skin off it.”

5. isim A garment made from animal skins.
6. isim The body of any quarry killed by a hawk; also, a dead bird given to a hawk for food.

   “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."”

7. fiil To remove the skin from (an animal); to skin.

   “Let us take a typical case of a mink farmer here in Connecticut who is being forced to throw in the sponge this coming fall. […] He pelts from 3500 to 4000 minks a year and has a huge investment of several thousand dollars tied up in his mink business.”

8. fiil Chiefly followed by from: to remove (the skin) from an animal.

   “A gentleman (long agoe) lent him an old velvet ſaddle, […] [He] preſently untruſſeth, and pelts the out-ſide from the lining, […] with it he made him a caſe, or cover, for a dublet, which hath caſed and coverd his nakednes ever ſince: […]”

9. fiil To remove feathers from (a bird).

   “A Man took an Eagle, Pelted her VVings, and put her among his Hens. Somebody came and bought This Eagle, and preſently Nevv-Feather'd her.”

10. fiil To bombard (someone or something) with missiles.

    “The children are pelting each other with snowballs.”

11. fiil To force (someone or something) to move using blows or the throwing of missiles.

    “[…] Martin survived […] to receive absolution from the very priest, whom, precisely on that day three years, he had assisted to pelt out of the hamlet of Morgenbrodt.”

12. fiil Of a number of small objects (such as raindrops), or the sun's rays: to beat down or fall on (someone or something) in a shower.

    “The chiding billovv ſeemes to pelt the cloudes, / The vvinde ſhak'd ſurge, vvith high and monſtrous mayne, / Seemes to caſt vvater, on the burning Beare, […]”

13. fiil Chiefly followed by at: to (continuously) throw (missiles) at.

    “The children pelted apples at us.”

14. fiil To repeatedly beat or hit (someone or something).
15. fiil To assail (someone) with harsh words in speech or writing; to abuse, to insult.

    “I have […] had the honour to be pelted with several epistles to expostulate with me on that subject.”

16. fiil Especially of hailstones, rain, or snow: to beat down or fall forcefully or heavily; to rain down.

    “It’s pelting down out there!”

17. fiil To move rapidly, especially in or on a conveyance.

    “I pelted across to where my family was sitting.”

18. fiil Chiefly followed by at: to bombard someone or something with missiles continuously.

    “The Biſhop, and the Duke of Gloſters men, / Forbidden late to carry any VVeapon, / Haue fill'd their Pockets full of peeble ſtones; / And banding themſelues in contrary parts, / Doe pelt ſo faſt at one anothers Pate.”

19. fiil To throw out harsh words; to show anger.

    “[S]he [the church] holdeth the veritie of his bodie [i.e., Jesus's body in the Eucharist]: ſhe pelteth not vvith God, denying this to be his body, bicauſe ſhe is cōmaunded to do this in remembrãce of hym: but ſhe doth beſt remembre hym, vvhen ſhe hath the bodie vvhich ſuffered, before her.”

20. isim A beating or falling down of hailstones, rain, or snow in a shower.

    “[D]azed and blinded, she bent her head as if to let the pelt of jagged hail, the drench of dirty water, bespatter her unrebuked.”

21. isim A blow or stroke from something thrown.

    “[T]he cripple, in falling, gave him ſuch a good pelt on the head vvith his crutch, that the blood follovved.”

22. isim A verbal insult; a jeer, a jibe, a taunt.
23. isim A fit of anger; an outburst, a rage.

    “The pope [Innocent IV] being in this pelt, Ægidus, a Spanish cardinal, thus interposed his gravity: […]”

24. isim An act of moving quickly; a rush.

    “It's a good day off us anyhow, and they're all going south-west by south full pelt as hard as they can go.”

25. isim A tattered or worthless piece of clothing; a rag.
26. isim Anything in a ragged and worthless state; rubbish, trash.
27. fiil To bargain for a better deal; to haggle.
28. isim A small shield, especially one of an approximately elliptical form, or crescent-shaped.
29. isim A flat apothecium with no rim.
30. özel isim A surname.