1. Cast, hurl, or throw repeatedly with some missile
   "They pelted each other with snowballs";
   - bombard
    
2. Attack and bombard with or as if with missiles
   "pelt the speaker with questions";
   - pepper
    
3. Rain heavily
   "Put on your rain coat— it's pelting outside!";
   - pour, rain cats and dogs [informal], rain buckets [informal], belt down [informal], pelt down [informal], bucket [Brit, informal], teem [informal], tip [Brit, informal], chuck it down [Brit, informal], chuck [Brit, informal]
    
4. [informal] Move or travel very quickly
   "He pelted down the hall to receive his guests"; "We pelted along the highway to make it to the airport on time";
   - rush, hotfoot, hasten, hie [archaic], speed, race, pelt along [informal], rush along, bucket along [informal], belt along [informal], step on it [informal], travel rapidly, hurry, zip [informal], zoom, zoom along [informal], whizz [informal], whizz along [informal], bucket [informal], belt [informal], barrel [informal], rocket [informal], wing [informal]

1. The dressed hairy coat of a mammal
   "She wore a luxurious pelt coat to the gala";
   - fur
    
2. Body covering of a living animal
   "The tiger's pelt was striped and sleek";
   - hide, skin

Derived forms: pelts, pelting, pelted

Type of: animal skin, assail, attack, body covering, go, locomote, move, rain, rain down, throw, travel, wing

Encyclopedia: Pelt