pelt /pɛlt/ star1 (pelting,pelted,pelts)

• 1.  

  N-COUNT（可数名词） The pelt of an animal is its skin, which can be used to make clothing or rugs. (动物的) 皮

  例：

  ...a bed covered with beaver pelts.

  …一张铺着海狸皮的床。

• 2.  

  V-T（及物动词） If you pelt someone with things, you throw things at them. 扔

  例：

  Some of the younger men began to pelt one another with snowballs.

  一些年纪稍轻的人开始相互扔雪球。

• 3.  

  N（名词） a blow 打击
• 4.  

  N（名词） speed (esp in the phrase at full pelt) 速度; 尤其在 at full pelt 中
• 5.  

  V-I（不及物动词） If the rain is pelting down, it is raining very hard. (雨) 猛烈地下 [非正式][usu cont]

  例：

  The rain now was pelting down.

  雨这时正哗哗地下。