pelter

pelter noun: one who pelts.

Noun

pelter (plural pelters)

One who pelts.
- With this mighty resolution framed and glassed, and hung over his bed, along with a pleasing representation of a gleaming eye, bearing the legend, "Thou, God, seest me," he managed by bearing himself humbly among his fellows, or rather, by having humility thrust upon him, to avert for a period such...1913, Norman Lindsay, A Curate in Bohemia, Sydney: N.S.W. Bookstall Co., published 1932, page 53
- Sketching is always a peltable or mobable offence, as being contrary to the Koran, and sitting down tempts the pelter.1915, H. G. Wells, The Research Magnificent
(figuratively, sometimes) A pelting; a shower of missiles, rain, anger, etc.
(dated) A pinchpenny; a mean, sordid person; a miser; a skinflint.

pelter (third-person singular simple present pelters, present participle peltering, simple past and past participle peltered)

(dialectal, nonstandard) To pelt.
- A person is "peltered" when he is subjected to a shower of stones, a shower of hail-stones, or a shower of anything. "Naay, gi'e ower peltering — one at a time! that's enew."1862, C. Clough Robinson, The Dialect of Leeds and Its Neighbourhood, page 383
- Suddenly Iliin's machine-gun started rattling, peltering the columns, and a second machine-gun followed suit, whilst the Cossacks opened a continuous fire from all sides, seconded by the third, fith and second squadrons.1923, Petr Nikolaevich Krasnov, From the Two-headed Eagle to the Red Flag, 1894-1921, page 96

Young stone-pelters took to the streets and faced armed police who fired straight at them, killing several.2008, Outlook, volume 48, number 35, page 20:
Chips as big as dinner plates were flying across the lawn and peltering the house like a gang of boys stoning telephone insulators.c. 1933, Erskine Caldwell, Country Full of Swedes:

Noun
plural	pelters
Verb
third-person singular present	pelters
present participle	peltering
past participle	peltered
past	peltered

From pelt + -er.

What does pelter mean?: Pelter means one who pelts.
How do you use pelter in a sentence?: Young stone-pelters took to the streets and faced armed police who fired straight at them, killing several.
What part of speech is pelter?: Pelter can be a noun or a verb.
What is the plural of pelter?: The plural of pelter is pelters.

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