(pelts, pelting, pelted)
1.
The pelt of an animal is its skin, which can be used to make clothing or rugs.
...a bed covered with beaver pelts.
= hide
N-COUNT: usu pl
2.
If you pelt someone with things, you throw things at them.
Some of the younger men began to pelt one another with snowballs...
VERB: V n with n
3.
If the rain is pelting down, or if it is pelting with rain, it is raining very hard. (INFORMAL)
The rain now was pelting down...
It's pelting with rain...
We drove through pelting rain.
VERB: usu cont, V adv, it V with n, V-ing
4.
If you pelt somewhere, you run there very fast. (INFORMAL)
Without thinking, she pelted down the stairs in her nightgown.
= dash
VERB: V prep
5.
If you do something full pelt or at full pelt, you do it very quickly indeed. (INFORMAL)
Alice leapt from the car and ran full pelt towards the emergency room...
PHRASE: PHR after v