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pelters

pelters is the plural of pelter.

pelters is the third-person singular simple present indicative of pelter.

Meaning of pelter

Noun

pelter (plural pelters)

  1. 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
  2. (figuratively, sometimes) A pelting; a shower of missiles, rain, anger, etc.
  3. (dated) A pinchpenny; a mean, sordid person; a miser; a skinflint.

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Questions about pelters

What is pelters the plural of?
Pelters is the plural of pelter.

Words near pelters in the dictionary

  1. pelted down
  2. Peltekian
  3. pelter
  4. peltered
  5. peltering
  6. pelters
  7. peltest
  8. pelteth
  9. peltidia
  10. peltidial
  11. peltidium

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