pelt
part of speech
noun (a pelt, pelts); verb (pelt, pelts, pelted, pelting)
meaning for a pupil
1) noun: The skin of an animal with the fur or hair still on it. tree →
2) verb: To throw many things at someone or something quickly: "pelt with snowballs". tree →
3) verb: (of rain or hail) To fall very hard: "It's pelting down." tree →
4) verb: (informal) To run very fast: "He pelted down the road." tree →
5) (at full pelt) As fast as possible. tree →
sense in the lessons
In history lessons about fur traders in Canada and North America, beaver pelts were traded. In stories and the playground, children pelt each other with snowballs. In weather talk (UK, Ireland, Australia), "it's pelting down" means heavy rain. "At full pelt" means at top speed.
examples
- They pelted each other with snowballs. tree →
- It was pelting down with rain all day. tree →
- Fur traders sold beaver pelts. tree →
- He pelted down the hill at full pelt. tree →
- The crowd pelted the stage with flowers. tree →
- Hail pelted against the windows. tree →
- The fox had a thick red pelt. tree →
- The giant came full pelt, but past the rock he could not go. tree →
note
Countable noun; regular verb (pelted). "It's pelting down" is informal. Note: cruelly throwing things at people or animals is wrong; snowball fights only with friends who agree.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «pelt» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.