pelt
pelted; pelting; pelts
A pelt is an animal's skin, fur and all. If you are wearing a fur coat, you are really wearing a pelt (hate to break it to you).
Another meaning of pelt is to throw something at someone — over and over again. Attacking armies might pelt the enemy with bombs, and there's always some kid in the back of an elementary school classroom who tries to pelt his classmates with spitballs. Either way, there is an attack or bombardment involved. If you dare to wear an animal pelt in front of an animal rights activist, you might just get pelted with a tomato.
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the dressed hairy coat of a mammal
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synonyms:
fur
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types:
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astrakhan
the fur of young lambs
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bearskin
the pelt of a bear (sometimes used as a rug)
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beaver, beaver fur
the soft brown fur of the beaver
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chinchilla
the expensive silvery grey fur of the chinchilla
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ermine
the expensive white fur of the ermine
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fox
the grey or reddish-brown fur of a fox
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lambskin
the skin of a lamb with the wool still on
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lapin, rabbit
the fur of a rabbit
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leopard
the pelt of a leopard
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mink
the expensive fur of a mink
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muskrat, muskrat fur
the brown fur of a muskrat
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otter
the fur of an otter
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raccoon
the fur of the North American racoon
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sable
the expensive dark brown fur of the marten
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seal, sealskin
the pelt or fur (especially the underfur) of a seal
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squirrel
the fur of a squirrel
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broadtail
the fur of a very young karakul lamb
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Persian lamb
the fur of a karakul lamb
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hudson seal
muskrat fur dressed to simulate sealskin
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type of:
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animal skin
the outer covering of an animal
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body covering of a living animal
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type of:
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body covering
any covering for the body or a body part
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body covering
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attack and bombard with or as if with missiles
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cast, hurl, or throw repeatedly with some missile
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rain heavily
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synonyms:
pour, rain buckets, rain cats and dogs, stream
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types:
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sheet
come down as if in sheets
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sluice, sluice down
pour as if from a sluice
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sheet
Vocabulary lists containing pelt
Middle schooler Daniel and his campmates battle for survival on the Crazy River in Montana.
In this second book from the Tales from Deckawoo Drive series, Francine Poulet, a third-generation animal control officer, struggles against a talking ghost raccoon.
In this sequel to Out of My Mind, sixth-grader Melody Brooks will not let her cerebral palsy stop her from enjoying all the activities offered by The Green Glades Therapeutic Recreational summer camp.
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