See pelt on Wiktionary
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"ref": "1879, R[ichard] J[efferies], “The First Gun”, in The Amateur Poacher, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], →OCLC, page 1:",
"text": "Perhaps the reason why he [a stuffed fox] seemed in such a ghastly rage was that he did not come by his death fairly. Otherwise his pelt would not have been so perfect. And why else was he put away up there out of sight?—and so magnificent a brush as he had too.",
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"ref": "1922 July, E[velyn] Charles Vivian, “White Man’s Magic: A Story of the Canadian Mounted Police”, in The Boy’s Own Paper, volume XLV, part 9, London: “Boy’s Own Paper” Office, […], →OCLC, page 617, column 1:",
"text": "My people got themselves pelts and pelts—there was such a trapping as comes but few times in a life. Pelts and pelts, the silver and the grey—fine pelts.",
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"The skin of an animal with the hair or wool on; either a raw or undressed hide, or a skin preserved with the hair or wool on it (sometimes worn as a garment with minimal modification)."
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"word": "ܫܠܚܐ"
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"sense": "skin of an animal with the hair or wool on",
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"roman": "a.re-pra:",
"sense": "skin of an animal with the hair or wool on",
"word": "အရေပြား"
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"sense": "skin of an animal with the hair or wool on",
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"word": "pellissa"
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"word": "vuota"
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"sense": "skin of an animal with the hair or wool on",
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"sense": "skin of an animal with the hair or wool on",
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"word": "dépouille"
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"_dis1": "67 22 4 5 3 0",
"code": "gl",
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"sense": "skin of an animal with the hair or wool on",
"tags": [
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"word": "pel"
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"code": "gl",
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"sense": "skin of an animal with the hair or wool on",
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"word": "pelello"
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"_dis1": "67 22 4 5 3 0",
"code": "gl",
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"sense": "skin of an animal with the hair or wool on",
"tags": [
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"word": "pelica"
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"_dis1": "67 22 4 5 3 0",
"code": "gl",
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"sense": "skin of an animal with the hair or wool on",
"tags": [
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"word": "pena"
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"_dis1": "67 22 4 5 3 0",
"code": "de",
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"sense": "skin of an animal with the hair or wool on",
"tags": [
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"word": "Pelz"
},
{
"_dis1": "67 22 4 5 3 0",
"code": "de",
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"sense": "skin of an animal with the hair or wool on",
"tags": [
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],
"word": "Balg"
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"_dis1": "67 22 4 5 3 0",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "skin of an animal with the hair or wool on",
"tags": [
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],
"word": "Fell"
},
{
"_dis1": "67 22 4 5 3 0",
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "petsí",
"sense": "skin of an animal with the hair or wool on",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "πετσί"
},
{
"_dis1": "67 22 4 5 3 0",
"code": "el",
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"roman": "déras",
"sense": "skin of an animal with the hair or wool on",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "δέρας"
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{
"_dis1": "67 22 4 5 3 0",
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "proveiá",
"sense": "skin of an animal with the hair or wool on",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "προβειά"
},
{
"_dis1": "67 22 4 5 3 0",
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "tomári",
"sense": "skin of an animal with the hair or wool on",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "τομάρι"
},
{
"_dis1": "67 22 4 5 3 0",
"code": "gn",
"lang": "Guaraní",
"sense": "skin of an animal with the hair or wool on",
"word": "tague"
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{
"_dis1": "67 22 4 5 3 0",
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "skin of an animal with the hair or wool on",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "belgur"
},
{
"_dis1": "67 22 4 5 3 0",
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "skin of an animal with the hair or wool on",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "feldur"
},
{
"_dis1": "67 22 4 5 3 0",
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "skin of an animal with the hair or wool on",
"tags": [
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],
"word": "loðskinn"
},
{
"_dis1": "67 22 4 5 3 0",
"code": "iu",
"lang": "Inuktitut",
"roman": "amiq",
"sense": "skin of an animal with the hair or wool on",
"word": "ᐊᒥᖅ"
},
{
"_dis1": "67 22 4 5 3 0",
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "skin of an animal with the hair or wool on",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "peall"
},
{
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"code": "ga",
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"tags": [
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"_dis1": "67 22 4 5 3 0",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "skin of an animal with the hair or wool on",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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"word": "pelle grezza"
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{
"_dis1": "67 22 4 5 3 0",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "skin of an animal with the hair or wool on",
"tags": [
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"word": "pelle non conciata"
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{
"_dis1": "67 22 4 5 3 0",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "skin of an animal with the hair or wool on",
"tags": [
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"word": "pelliccia"
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{
"_dis1": "67 22 4 5 3 0",
"code": "ja",
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"roman": "fā",
"sense": "skin of an animal with the hair or wool on",
"word": "ファー"
},
{
"_dis1": "67 22 4 5 3 0",
"alt": "かく",
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"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "kaku",
"sense": "skin of an animal with the hair or wool on",
"word": "革"
},
{
"_dis1": "67 22 4 5 3 0",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"sense": "skin of an animal with the hair or wool on",
"word": "毛皮"
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{
"_dis1": "67 22 4 5 3 0",
"alt": "けがわ, もうひ, kegawa",
"code": "ja",
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"sense": "skin of an animal with the hair or wool on",
"word": "毛革"
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"_dis1": "67 22 4 5 3 0",
"alt": "毛皮",
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "mopi",
"sense": "skin of an animal with the hair or wool on",
"word": "모피"
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"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "skin of an animal with the hair or wool on",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "pellis"
},
{
"_dis1": "67 22 4 5 3 0",
"code": "lv",
"lang": "Latvian",
"sense": "skin of an animal with the hair or wool on",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "kažoks"
},
{
"_dis1": "67 22 4 5 3 0",
"code": "gv",
"lang": "Manx",
"sense": "skin of an animal with the hair or wool on",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "crackan"
},
{
"_dis1": "67 22 4 5 3 0",
"code": "nv",
"lang": "Navajo",
"sense": "skin of an animal with the hair or wool on",
"word": "akágí"
},
{
"_dis1": "67 22 4 5 3 0",
"code": "nv",
"lang": "Navajo",
"sense": "skin of an animal with the hair or wool on",
"word": "asgąʼ"
},
{
"_dis1": "67 22 4 5 3 0",
"code": "nv",
"lang": "Navajo",
"sense": "skin of an animal with the hair or wool on",
"word": "hakágí"
},
{
"_dis1": "67 22 4 5 3 0",
"code": "se",
"lang": "Northern Sami",
"sense": "skin of an animal with the hair or wool on",
"word": "roavgu"
},
{
"_dis1": "67 22 4 5 3 0",
"code": "oj",
"lang": "Ojibwe",
"sense": "skin of an animal with the hair or wool on",
"word": "-wayaan"
},
{
"_dis1": "67 22 4 5 3 0",
"code": "orv",
"lang": "Old East Slavic",
"roman": "skora",
"sense": "skin of an animal with the hair or wool on",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "скора"
},
{
"_dis1": "67 22 4 5 3 0",
"code": "zlw-opl",
"lang": "Old Polish",
"sense": "skin of an animal with the hair or wool on",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "koża"
},
{
"_dis1": "67 22 4 5 3 0",
"code": "ota",
"lang": "Ottoman Turkish",
"roman": "kürk",
"sense": "skin of an animal with the hair or wool on",
"word": "كورك"
},
{
"_dis1": "67 22 4 5 3 0",
"code": "pdc",
"lang": "Pennsylvania German",
"sense": "skin of an animal with the hair or wool on",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Bels"
},
{
"_dis1": "67 22 4 5 3 0",
"code": "crk",
"lang": "Plains Cree",
"sense": "skin of an animal with the hair or wool on",
"word": "ᐊᑖᐚᑲᐣ"
},
{
"_dis1": "67 22 4 5 3 0",
"code": "crk",
"lang": "Plains Cree",
"sense": "skin of an animal with the hair or wool on",
"word": "atâwâkan"
},
{
"_dis1": "67 22 4 5 3 0",
"code": "pdt",
"lang": "Plautdietsch",
"sense": "skin of an animal with the hair or wool on",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Pelz"
},
{
"_dis1": "67 22 4 5 3 0",
"code": "pdt",
"lang": "Plautdietsch",
"sense": "skin of an animal with the hair or wool on",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "Fal"
},
{
"_dis1": "67 22 4 5 3 0",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "skin of an animal with the hair or wool on",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "skóra"
},
{
"_dis1": "67 22 4 5 3 0",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "skin of an animal with the hair or wool on",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "pele"
},
{
"_dis1": "67 22 4 5 3 0",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "skin of an animal with the hair or wool on",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "tosão"
},
{
"_dis1": "67 22 4 5 3 0",
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "skin of an animal with the hair or wool on",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "blană"
},
{
"_dis1": "67 22 4 5 3 0",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "kóža",
"sense": "skin of an animal with the hair or wool on",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "ко́жа"
},
{
"_dis1": "67 22 4 5 3 0",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "škúra",
"sense": "skin of an animal with the hair or wool on",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "шку́ра"
},
{
"_dis1": "67 22 4 5 3 0",
"code": "sa",
"lang": "Sanskrit",
"roman": "carman",
"sense": "skin of an animal with the hair or wool on",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "चर्मन्"
},
{
"_dis1": "67 22 4 5 3 0",
"code": "gd",
"lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
"sense": "skin of an animal with the hair or wool on",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "seiche"
},
{
"_dis1": "67 22 4 5 3 0",
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "skin of an animal with the hair or wool on",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic",
"masculine"
],
"word": "пе̏лц"
},
{
"_dis1": "67 22 4 5 3 0",
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "skin of an animal with the hair or wool on",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic",
"masculine"
],
"word": "ко̀жух"
},
{
"_dis1": "67 22 4 5 3 0",
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "skin of an animal with the hair or wool on",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic",
"neuter"
],
"word": "кр́зно"
},
{
"_dis1": "67 22 4 5 3 0",
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "skin of an animal with the hair or wool on",
"tags": [
"Roman",
"dialectal",
"masculine"
],
"word": "pȅlc"
},
{
"_dis1": "67 22 4 5 3 0",
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "skin of an animal with the hair or wool on",
"tags": [
"Roman",
"masculine"
],
"word": "kòžuh"
},
{
"_dis1": "67 22 4 5 3 0",
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "skin of an animal with the hair or wool on",
"tags": [
"Roman",
"neuter"
],
"word": "kŕzno"
},
{
"_dis1": "67 22 4 5 3 0",
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "skin of an animal with the hair or wool on",
"word": "kožušina"
},
{
"_dis1": "67 22 4 5 3 0",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "skin of an animal with the hair or wool on",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "pelleja"
},
{
"_dis1": "67 22 4 5 3 0",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "skin of an animal with the hair or wool on",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "piel"
},
{
"_dis1": "67 22 4 5 3 0",
"code": "sva",
"lang": "Svan",
"roman": "ḳēš",
"sense": "skin of an animal with the hair or wool on",
"word": "კე̄შ"
},
{
"_dis1": "67 22 4 5 3 0",
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "skin of an animal with the hair or wool on",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "fäll"
},
{
"_dis1": "67 22 4 5 3 0",
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "skin of an animal with the hair or wool on",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "skinn"
},
{
"_dis1": "67 22 4 5 3 0",
"code": "bo",
"english": "gab kob",
"lang": "Tibetan",
"sense": "skin of an animal with the hair or wool on",
"word": "གབ་ཀོབ"
},
{
"_dis1": "67 22 4 5 3 0",
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "škúra",
"sense": "skin of an animal with the hair or wool on",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "шку́ра"
},
{
"_dis1": "67 22 4 5 3 0",
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "xútro",
"sense": "skin of an animal with the hair or wool on",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "ху́тро"
},
{
"_dis1": "67 22 4 5 3 0",
"code": "wym",
"lang": "Vilamovian",
"sense": "skin of an animal with the hair or wool on",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "pełc"
},
{
"_dis1": "67 22 4 5 3 0",
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "skin of an animal with the hair or wool on",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "croen"
},
{
"_dis1": "67 22 4 5 3 0",
"code": "za",
"lang": "Zhuang",
"sense": "skin of an animal with the hair or wool on",
"word": "naeng"
}
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"The skin of an animal (especially a goat or sheep) with the hair or wool removed, often in preparation for tanning."
],
"id": "en-pelt-en-noun-9DcVEQRQ",
"links": [
[
"goat",
"goat#Noun"
],
[
"sheep",
"sheep"
],
[
"removed",
"remove#Verb"
],
[
"preparation",
"preparation"
],
[
"tanning",
"tanning#Noun"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(also figuratively) The skin of an animal (especially a goat or sheep) with the hair or wool removed, often in preparation for tanning."
],
"tags": [
"also",
"figuratively"
],
"translations": [
{
"_dis1": "29 53 4 7 5 2",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "skin of an animal with the hair or wool removed, often in preparation for tanning",
"word": "nahas"
}
]
},
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1697, Virgil, “The Third Book of the Georgics”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, page 116, lines 670–673:",
"text": "The Cauſes and the Signs ſhall next be told, / Of ev'ry Sickneſs that infects the Fold [of sheep]. / A ſcabby Tetter on their pelts vvill ſtick, / VVhen the ravv Rain has pierc'd 'em to the quick: […]",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"The fur or hair of a living animal."
],
"id": "en-pelt-en-noun-Tt25wfjX",
"links": [
[
"fur",
"fur#Noun"
],
[
"living",
"living#Adjective"
]
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Irish English",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"_dis": "15 5 1 25 4 14 3 28 3",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Albanian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "15 6 1 25 4 14 3 28 3",
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"name": "Terms with Armenian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "16 6 1 24 4 15 3 27 3",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Burmese translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "5 2 0 9 2 5 7 3 5 1 3 1 10 1 6 3 3 9 3 2 4 1 10 5",
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"name": "Terms with Czech translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "15 5 1 23 4 15 3 29 3",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Irish translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "15 5 1 24 4 15 3 28 3",
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"name": "Terms with Latvian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "15 6 1 26 4 14 3 27 3",
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"name": "Terms with Old Armenian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "13 5 3 29 4 14 3 27 3",
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"name": "Terms with Pennsylvania German translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
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{
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"Human",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
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"ref": "1938, Norman Lindsay, chapter XVII, in Age of Consent, London: T[homas] Werner Laurie […], →OCLC, page 177:",
"text": "Put on your dress, ye shameless witch, standin' there in your pelt I'll take a strap to, for havin' the conceit out of you, for by your idling had lost me the sup of gin to keep the breath of life in me. Cover your scut, or I'll welt the skin off it.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
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"Human skin, especially when bare; also, a person's hair."
],
"id": "en-pelt-en-noun-rGY150r9",
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[
"humorous",
"humorous"
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[
"Human",
"human#Adjective"
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[
"bare",
"bare#Adjective"
],
[
"person",
"person#Noun"
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],
"raw_glosses": [
"(chiefly Ireland, humorous, informal) Human skin, especially when bare; also, a person's hair."
],
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"Ireland",
"humorous",
"informal"
],
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"_dis1": "19 6 0 53 4 18",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "(humorous, informal) human skin, especially when bare — see also skin",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "huid"
},
{
"_dis1": "19 6 0 53 4 18",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "(humorous, informal) human skin, especially when bare — see also skin",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "vel"
},
{
"_dis1": "19 6 0 53 4 18",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "(humorous, informal) human skin, especially when bare — see also skin",
"word": "nahka"
},
{
"_dis1": "19 6 0 53 4 18",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "(humorous, informal) human skin, especially when bare — see also skin",
"word": "iho"
},
{
"_dis1": "19 6 0 53 4 18",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "(humorous, informal) human skin, especially when bare — see also skin",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "peau"
},
{
"_dis1": "19 6 0 53 4 18",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "(humorous, informal) human skin, especially when bare — see also skin",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Haut"
},
{
"_dis1": "19 6 0 53 4 18",
"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"sense": "(humorous, informal) human skin, especially when bare — see also skin",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "עור"
},
{
"_dis1": "19 6 0 53 4 18",
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "(humorous, informal) human skin, especially when bare — see also skin",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "húð"
},
{
"_dis1": "19 6 0 53 4 18",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "(humorous, informal) human skin, especially when bare — see also skin",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "pellaccia"
},
{
"_dis1": "19 6 0 53 4 18",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "(humorous, informal) human skin, especially when bare — see also skin",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "skóra"
},
{
"_dis1": "19 6 0 53 4 18",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "(humorous, informal) human skin, especially when bare — see also skin",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "pele"
},
{
"_dis1": "19 6 0 53 4 18",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "(humorous, informal) human skin, especially when bare — see also skin",
"word": "coiro"
},
{
"_dis1": "19 6 0 53 4 18",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "kóža",
"sense": "(humorous, informal) human skin, especially when bare — see also skin",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "ко́жа"
},
{
"_dis1": "19 6 0 53 4 18",
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "(humorous, informal) human skin, especially when bare — see also skin",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic",
"feminine"
],
"word": "ко̏жа"
},
{
"_dis1": "19 6 0 53 4 18",
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "(humorous, informal) human skin, especially when bare — see also skin",
"tags": [
"Roman",
"feminine"
],
"word": "kȍža"
},
{
"_dis1": "19 6 0 53 4 18",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "(humorous, informal) human skin, especially when bare — see also skin",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "piel"
},
{
"_dis1": "19 6 0 53 4 18",
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "(humorous, informal) human skin, especially when bare — see also skin",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "päls"
},
{
"_dis1": "19 6 0 53 4 18",
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "(humorous, informal) human skin, especially when bare — see also skin",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "hud"
},
{
"_dis1": "19 6 0 53 4 18",
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "(humorous, informal) human skin, especially when bare — see also skin",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "skinn"
},
{
"_dis1": "21 5 4 47 0 24",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "(humorous, informal) person’s hair — see also hair",
"word": "tukka"
}
]
},
{
"categories": [],
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"A garment made from animal skins."
],
"id": "en-pelt-en-noun-gRjSlnZA",
"links": [
[
"made",
"make#Verb"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(obsolete)",
"A garment made from animal skins."
],
"tags": [
"obsolete"
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Falconry",
"orig": "en:Falconry",
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"Sports",
"Human activity",
"Human behaviour",
"Human",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
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},
{
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{
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"ref": "1852, Richard F[rancis] Burton, “A Day with the Bashah”, in Falconry in the Valley of the Indus, London: John Van Voorst, […], →OCLC, page 60:",
"text": "If two [hawks] are flown they are certain to fell the game at once, and the falconer is always flurried by their violent propensity to crab over the \"pelt.\"",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"The body of any quarry killed by a hawk; also, a dead bird given to a hawk for food."
],
"id": "en-pelt-en-noun-bAbuA38b",
"links": [
[
"falconry",
"falconry"
],
[
"body",
"body#Noun"
],
[
"quarry",
"quarry#Noun"
],
[
"killed",
"kill#Verb"
],
[
"hawk",
"hawk#Noun"
],
[
"dead",
"dead#Adjective"
],
[
"bird",
"bird#Noun"
],
[
"given",
"give#Verb"
],
[
"food",
"food"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(obsolete)",
"(falconry) The body of any quarry killed by a hawk; also, a dead bird given to a hawk for food."
],
"tags": [
"obsolete"
],
"topics": [
"falconry",
"hobbies",
"hunting",
"lifestyle"
]
}
],
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"text": "They pelted the attacking army with bullets.",
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"ref": "1563 March 30 (Gregorian calendar), John Foxe, “The Actes of Paschalis II. Bishop of Rome”, in Actes and Monuments of These Latter and Perillous Dayes, […], London: […] Iohn Day, […], →OCLC, book I, page [51]:",
"text": "Pope Lucius [II] being also amongst thē in the fight, well pelted with stones and blowes liued not long after.",
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{
"ref": "1719, [Daniel Defoe], The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe; […], London: […] W[illiam] Taylor […], →OCLC, page 223:",
"text": "[T]hey ſtood pelting us from the Shore vvith Darts and Arrovvs; […]",
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},
{
"ref": "1847, Arthur Smith, “Of the Gent who Goes to the Races”, in The Natural History of the Gent, London: David Bogue, […], →OCLC, page 48:",
"text": "He pelteth old gentlemen driving four-wheeled chaises with snuff-boxes, and distributeth pincushions to the domestics, breaking windows withal.",
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"ref": "1927 May, Virginia Woolf, chapter 4, in To the Lighthouse (Uniform Edition of the Works of Virginia Woolf), new edition, London: Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, […], published 1930, →OCLC, part II (Time Passes), page 207:",
"text": "[C]hildren pelting each other with handfuls of grass,— […]",
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{
"ref": "2020 October, Christian Lauren [pseudonym; Christina Hobbs and Lauren Billings], chapter 1, in In a Holidaze, New York, N.Y.: Gallery Books, →ISBN, page 8:",
"text": "Standing again, he pelts Kyle in the stomach [with a snowball], who pelts Dad on the arm.",
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"sense": "to bombard (someone or something) with missiles",
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"sense": "to bombard (someone or something) with missiles",
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{
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"_dis1": "67 4 3 5 0 1 2 1 15 2",
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"sense": "to bombard (someone or something) with missiles"
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"_dis1": "67 4 3 5 0 1 2 1 15 2",
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{
"_dis1": "67 4 3 5 0 1 2 1 15 2",
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{
"_dis1": "67 4 3 5 0 1 2 1 15 2",
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"word": "epa"
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{
"_dis1": "67 4 3 5 0 1 2 1 15 2",
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"sense": "to bombard (someone or something) with missiles",
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"sense": "to bombard (someone or something) with missiles",
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{
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"_dis1": "67 4 3 5 0 1 2 1 15 2",
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"word": "totorven"
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{
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"word": "tswán"
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"_dis1": "67 4 3 5 0 1 2 1 15 2",
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"sense": "to bombard (someone or something) with missiles",
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{
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"_dis1": "67 4 3 5 0 1 2 1 15 2",
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"sense": "to bombard (someone or something) with missiles",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "забра́сывать"
},
{
"_dis1": "67 4 3 5 0 1 2 1 15 2",
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"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "zabrosátʹ",
"sense": "to bombard (someone or something) with missiles",
"tags": [
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],
"word": "заброса́ть"
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{
"_dis1": "67 4 3 5 0 1 2 1 15 2",
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"sense": "to bombard (someone or something) with missiles",
"tags": [
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],
"word": "заки́дывать"
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"sense": "to bombard (someone or something) with missiles",
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],
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"_dis1": "67 4 3 5 0 1 2 1 15 2",
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"_dis1": "67 4 3 5 0 1 2 1 15 2",
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"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to bombard (someone or something) with missiles",
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{
"_dis1": "67 4 3 5 0 1 2 1 15 2",
"code": "tl",
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"sense": "to bombard (someone or something) with missiles",
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{
"_dis1": "67 4 3 5 0 1 2 1 15 2",
"code": "uk",
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"sense": "to bombard (someone or something) with missiles",
"word": "закидувати"
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"_dis1": "67 4 3 5 0 1 2 1 15 2",
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"word": "закидати"
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{
"_dis1": "67 4 3 5 0 1 2 1 15 2",
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"ref": "1816, [Walter Scott], chapter III, in The Antiquary. […], volume II, Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, →OCLC, page 83:",
"text": "[…] Martin survived […] to receive absolution from the very priest, whom, precisely on that day three years, he had assisted to pelt out of the hamlet of Morgenbrodt.",
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{
"ref": "1885, Richard F[rancis] Burton, transl. and editor, “The Translator’s Foreword”, in A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights’ Entertainments, now Entituled The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night […], Shammar edition, volume I, [London]: […] Burton Club […], →OCLC, page viii:",
"text": "Presently, sweetened by distance, would be heard the wild weird song of lads and lasses, driving or rather pelting, through the gloaming their sheep and goats; […]",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1939 May 4, James Joyce, Finnegans Wake, London: Faber and Faber Limited, →OCLC; republished London: Faber & Faber Limited, 1960, →OCLC, part I, page 89:",
"text": "So he was pelted out of the coram populo, was he?",
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[
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"_dis1": "4 78 1 5 0 0 2 3 4 2",
"code": "fi",
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"word": "pakottaa iskuin"
}
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"ref": "c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, The Tragœdy of Othello, the Moore of Venice. […] (First Quarto), London: […] N[icholas] O[kes] for Thomas Walkley, […], published 1622, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i], page 21:",
"text": "The chiding billovv ſeemes to pelt the cloudes, / The vvinde ſhak'd ſurge, vvith high and monſtrous mayne, / Seemes to caſt vvater, on the burning Beare, […]",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1622 (first performance), Thomas Middleton, William Rowley, The Changeling: […], London: […] [Thomas Newcombe] for Humphrey Moseley, […], published 1653, →OCLC, Act II, signature [C4], verso:",
"text": "Ile ſtand this ſtorm of hail though the ſtones pelt me.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1782, [Frances Burney], “A Sketch of High Life”, in Cecilia, or Memoirs of an Heiress. […], volume III, London: […] T[homas] Payne and Son […], and T[homas] Cadell […], →OCLC, book VI, pages 269–270:",
"text": "They had gone but a fevv ſteps, before there came a violent ſhovver of hail; and the vvind, vvhich vvas very high, being immediately in their faces, Cecilia vvas ſo pelted and incommoded, that ſhe vvas frequently obliged to ſtop, in defiance of her utmoſt efforts to force herſelf forvvard.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1847 October 16, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], chapter X, in Jane Eyre. An Autobiography. […], volume II, London: Smith, Elder, and Co., […], →OCLC, page 268:",
"text": "On sleeping, I continued in dreams the idea of a dark and gusty night. […] [T]otal obscurity environed me; rain pelted me; […]",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1869, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter LV, in The Innocents Abroad, or The New Pilgrims’ Progress; […], Hartford, Conn.: American Publishing Company. […], →OCLC, page 597:",
"text": "The sun so pelted us that the tears ran down our cheeks once or twice.",
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"_dis1": "2 1 68 2 1 1 19 2 1 2",
"code": "fi",
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{
"_dis1": "2 1 68 2 1 1 19 2 1 2",
"code": "fi",
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{
"_dis1": "2 1 68 2 1 1 19 2 1 2",
"code": "fi",
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}
]
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"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
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"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Middle English translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
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"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Nupe translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "12 6 10 2 5 7 5 4 13 6 2 7 1 16 4",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Old Irish translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "12 5 7 2 5 8 5 4 14 5 2 7 1 17 4",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Tagalog translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "14 5 6 2 5 8 5 5 15 3 2 8 1 17 4",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Volapük translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "14 5 6 2 5 8 5 5 15 2 2 8 1 18 4",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Wanyi translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "The children pelted apples at us.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"ref": "1704, [Jonathan Swift], “Section XI. A Tale of a Tub.”, in A Tale of a Tub. […], London: […] John Nutt, […], →OCLC, pages 203–204:",
"text": "[I]n his Paroxyſms, as he vvalked the Streets, he vvould have his Pockets loaden vvith Stones, to pelt at the Signs.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1852 March – 1853 September, Charles Dickens, “Interlopers”, in Bleak House, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1853, →OCLC, pages 327–328:",
"text": "Will someone hand me anything hard and bruising to pelt at her?",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Chiefly followed by at: to (continuously) throw (missiles) at."
],
"id": "en-pelt-en-verb-ANbgfUwC",
"links": [
[
"at",
"at#Preposition"
],
[
"continuously",
"continuously"
],
[
"throw",
"throw#Verb"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive)",
"Chiefly followed by at: to (continuously) throw (missiles) at."
],
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{
"word": "cockshy"
}
],
"tags": [
"transitive"
],
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{
"_dis1": "14 12 3 31 1 1 5 0 21 11",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "hvǎrljam",
"sense": "to (continuously) throw (missiles) at",
"word": "хвърлям"
},
{
"_dis1": "14 12 3 31 1 1 5 0 21 11",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "zamervam",
"sense": "to (continuously) throw (missiles) at",
"word": "замервам"
},
{
"_dis1": "14 12 3 31 1 1 5 0 21 11",
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to (continuously) throw (missiles) at",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "házet"
},
{
"_dis1": "14 12 3 31 1 1 5 0 21 11",
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to (continuously) throw (missiles) at",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "vrhat"
},
{
"_dis1": "14 12 3 31 1 1 5 0 21 11",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to (continuously) throw (missiles) at",
"word": "heitellä"
},
{
"_dis1": "14 12 3 31 1 1 5 0 21 11",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to (continuously) throw (missiles) at",
"word": "heittää"
},
{
"_dis1": "14 12 3 31 1 1 5 0 21 11",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"note": "with force",
"sense": "to (continuously) throw (missiles) at",
"word": "paiskoa"
},
{
"_dis1": "14 12 3 31 1 1 5 0 21 11",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to (continuously) throw (missiles) at",
"word": "paskata"
},
{
"_dis1": "14 12 3 31 1 1 5 0 21 11",
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "to (continuously) throw (missiles) at",
"word": "tirar"
},
{
"_dis1": "14 12 3 31 1 1 5 0 21 11",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to (continuously) throw (missiles) at",
"word": "bewerfen"
},
{
"_dis1": "14 12 3 31 1 1 5 0 21 11",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to (continuously) throw (missiles) at",
"word": "epa"
},
{
"_dis1": "14 12 3 31 1 1 5 0 21 11",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to (continuously) throw (missiles) at",
"word": "opa"
},
{
"_dis1": "14 12 3 31 1 1 5 0 21 11",
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "to (continuously) throw (missiles) at",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic"
],
"word": "га́ђати"
},
{
"_dis1": "14 12 3 31 1 1 5 0 21 11",
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "to (continuously) throw (missiles) at",
"tags": [
"Roman"
],
"word": "gáđati"
},
{
"_dis1": "14 12 3 31 1 1 5 0 21 11",
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "kydaty",
"sense": "to (continuously) throw (missiles) at",
"word": "кидати"
},
{
"_dis1": "14 12 3 31 1 1 5 0 21 11",
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "žburljaty",
"sense": "to (continuously) throw (missiles) at",
"word": "жбурляти"
},
{
"_dis1": "14 12 3 31 1 1 5 0 21 11",
"code": "vo",
"lang": "Volapük",
"sense": "to (continuously) throw (missiles) at",
"word": "bejedön"
}
]
},
{
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{
"kind": "other",
"name": "British English",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To repeatedly beat or hit (someone or something)."
],
"id": "en-pelt-en-verb-fIzBdv~R",
"links": [
[
"repeatedly",
"repeatedly"
],
[
"beat",
"beat#Verb"
],
[
"hit",
"hit#Verb"
]
],
"qualifier": "archaic except British",
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive)",
"(archaic except British, dialectal) To repeatedly beat or hit (someone or something)."
],
"tags": [
"dialectal",
"transitive"
],
"translations": [
{
"_dis1": "4 0 1 0 93 0 2 0 0 0",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "barabanja",
"sense": "to repeatedly beat or hit (someone or something)",
"word": "барабаня"
},
{
"_dis1": "4 0 1 0 93 0 2 0 0 0",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to repeatedly beat or hit (someone or something)",
"word": "hakata"
},
{
"_dis1": "4 0 1 0 93 0 2 0 0 0",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to repeatedly beat or hit (someone or something)",
"word": "pieksää"
},
{
"_dis1": "4 0 1 0 93 0 2 0 0 0",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to repeatedly beat or hit (someone or something)",
"word": "piestä"
},
{
"_dis1": "4 0 1 0 93 0 2 0 0 0",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to repeatedly beat or hit (someone or something)",
"word": "rusikoida"
},
{
"_dis1": "4 0 1 0 93 0 2 0 0 0",
"code": "gd",
"lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
"sense": "to repeatedly beat or hit (someone or something)",
"word": "buail"
},
{
"_dis1": "4 0 1 0 93 0 2 0 0 0",
"code": "gd",
"lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
"sense": "to repeatedly beat or hit (someone or something)",
"word": "rùsg"
}
]
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"ref": "1710 July 8 (Gregorian calendar), Isaac Bickerstaff [pseudonym; Richard Steele et al.], “Tuesday, June 27, 1710”, in The Tatler, number 190; republished in [Richard Steele], editor, The Tatler, […], London stereotype edition, volume III, London: I. Walker and Co.; […], 1822, →OCLC, page 105:",
"text": "I have […] had the honour to be pelted with several epistles to expostulate with me on that subject.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1791, James Boswell, quoting Samuel Johnson, “[1775]”, in The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. […], volume I, London: […] Henry Baldwin, for Charles Dilly, […], →OCLC, page 454:",
"text": "They don't knovv hovv to go about their abuſe. VVho vvill read a five ſhilling book againſt me? No, Sir, if they had vvit, they ſhould have kept pelting me vvith pamphlets.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
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"To assail (someone) with harsh words in speech or writing; to abuse, to insult."
],
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"links": [
[
"assail",
"assail"
],
[
"harsh",
"harsh#Adjective"
],
[
"words",
"word#Noun"
],
[
"speech",
"speech#Noun"
],
[
"writing",
"writing#Noun"
],
[
"abuse",
"abuse#Verb"
],
[
"insult",
"insult#Verb"
]
],
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"(transitive)",
"(figuratively) To assail (someone) with harsh words in speech or writing; to abuse, to insult."
],
"tags": [
"figuratively",
"transitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"text": "It’s pelting down out there!",
"type": "example"
},
{
"ref": "c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act II, scene iv:",
"text": "Accurſt be he that firſt inuented war, / They knew not, ah, they knew not ſimple men, / How thoſe were hit by pelting Cannon ſhot, / Stand ſtaggering like a quiuering Aſpen leafe, / Fearing the force of Boreas boiſtrous blaſts.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1819 (date written), John Keats, “Fancy”, in Lamia, Isabella, the Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems, London: […] [Thomas Davison] for Taylor and Hessey, […], published 1820, →OCLC, page 122:",
"text": "Ever let the Fancy roam, / Pleasure never is at home: / At a touch sweet Pleasure melteth, / Like to bubbles when rain pelteth; […]",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1822 May, J. M. Lacey, “Address to the First of April Last—a Very Cold Day”, in The Lady’s Monthly Museum; or, Polite Repository of Amusement and Instruction; […], volume XV (Improved Series), London: […] Dean and Munday, […], →OCLC, stanza 2, page 299:",
"text": "Thou peltest fast with icy show'r, / Which surely cannot please one; / The wind too has such boist'rous pow'r, / 'Tis quite enough to freeze one.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1840, R[ichard] H[enry] D[ana], Jr., chapter XXXII, in Two Years before the Mast. […] (Harper’s Family Library; no. CVI), New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers […], →OCLC, page 404:",
"text": "On deck, all was dark as a pocket, and either a dead calm, with the rain pouring steadily down, or, more generally, a violent gale dead ahead, with rain pelting horizontally, and occasional variations of hail and sleet;— […]",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Especially of hailstones, rain, or snow: to beat down or fall forcefully or heavily; to rain down."
],
"id": "en-pelt-en-verb-8LKwtvA0",
"links": [
[
"hailstone",
"hailstone"
],
[
"rain",
"rain#Noun"
],
[
"snow",
"snow#Noun"
],
[
"forcefully",
"forcefully"
],
[
"heavily",
"heavily"
],
[
"rain down",
"rain down"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(intransitive)",
"Especially of hailstones, rain, or snow: to beat down or fall forcefully or heavily; to rain down."
],
"tags": [
"intransitive"
],
"translations": [
{
"_dis1": "3 2 19 8 1 1 55 1 8 2",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "barabanja",
"sense": "especially of hailstones, rain, or snow: to beat down or fall forcefully or heavily — see also rain down",
"word": "барабаня"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 2 19 8 1 1 55 1 8 2",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "especially of hailstones, rain, or snow: to beat down or fall forcefully or heavily — see also rain down",
"word": "stortregenen"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 2 19 8 1 1 55 1 8 2",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "especially of hailstones, rain, or snow: to beat down or fall forcefully or heavily — see also rain down",
"word": "sataa kaatamalla"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 2 19 8 1 1 55 1 8 2",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "especially of hailstones, rain, or snow: to beat down or fall forcefully or heavily — see also rain down",
"word": "pleuvoir à verse"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 2 19 8 1 1 55 1 8 2",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "especially of hailstones, rain, or snow: to beat down or fall forcefully or heavily — see also rain down",
"word": "gießen"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 2 19 8 1 1 55 1 8 2",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "especially of hailstones, rain, or snow: to beat down or fall forcefully or heavily — see also rain down",
"word": "niederprasseln"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 2 19 8 1 1 55 1 8 2",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "especially of hailstones, rain, or snow: to beat down or fall forcefully or heavily — see also rain down",
"word": "prasseln"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 2 19 8 1 1 55 1 8 2",
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "especially of hailstones, rain, or snow: to beat down or fall forcefully or heavily — see also rain down",
"word": "hellirigna"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 2 19 8 1 1 55 1 8 2",
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "especially of hailstones, rain, or snow: to beat down or fall forcefully or heavily — see also rain down",
"word": "steypast"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 2 19 8 1 1 55 1 8 2",
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "especially of hailstones, rain, or snow: to beat down or fall forcefully or heavily — see also rain down",
"word": "steypast niður"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 2 19 8 1 1 55 1 8 2",
"code": "km",
"lang": "Khmer",
"roman": "srɑm",
"sense": "especially of hailstones, rain, or snow: to beat down or fall forcefully or heavily — see also rain down",
"word": "ស្រំ"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 2 19 8 1 1 55 1 8 2",
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "especially of hailstones, rain, or snow: to beat down or fall forcefully or heavily — see also rain down",
"word": "störtregna"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 2 19 8 1 1 55 1 8 2",
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "barabanyty",
"sense": "especially of hailstones, rain, or snow: to beat down or fall forcefully or heavily — see also rain down",
"word": "барабанити"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 2 19 8 1 1 55 1 8 2",
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "stukaty",
"sense": "especially of hailstones, rain, or snow: to beat down or fall forcefully or heavily — see also rain down",
"word": "стукати"
}
]
},
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"text": "I pelted across to where my family was sitting.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"text": "The bus went pelting down the hill.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"ref": "1843 December 19, Charles Dickens, “Stave I. Marley’s Ghost.”, in A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas, London: Chapman & Hall, […], →OCLC, page 18:",
"text": "The office was closed in a twinkling, and the clerk, with the long ends of his white comforter dangling below his waist (for he boasted no great-coat), went down a slide on Cornhill, at the end of a lane of boys, twenty times, in honour of its being Christmas-eve, and then ran home to Camden Town as hard as he could pelt, to play at blindman's-buff.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1892 March, “Mother Talks—A Spring Walk”, in Cora L. Stockham, Andrea Hofer, editors, The Kindergarten Magazine […], volume IV, number VII, Chicago, Ill.: Kindergarten Publishing Company, →OCLC, page 471, column 2:",
"text": "Spring, is ye comen in, / Dappled larke singe, / Snow melteth, / Runnel pelteth, / Smelleth wind of newe buddinge.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2019 November 21, Samanth Subramanian, “How our home delivery habit reshaped the world”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-07-11:",
"text": "While we choose and buy our purchases with mere inch-wide movements of our thumbs, they are busy rearranging the physical world so that our deliveries pelt towards us in ever-quicker time.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To move rapidly, especially in or on a conveyance."
],
"id": "en-pelt-en-verb-fqiyTFN7",
"links": [
[
"rapidly",
"rapidly"
],
[
"conveyance",
"conveyance#Noun"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(intransitive)",
"(figuratively) To move rapidly, especially in or on a conveyance."
],
"tags": [
"figuratively",
"intransitive"
],
"translations": [
{
"_dis1": "0 10 0 0 0 0 2 88 0 0",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "profučavam",
"sense": "to move rapidly",
"word": "профучавам"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 10 0 0 0 0 2 88 0 0",
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to move rapidly",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "řítit se"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 10 0 0 0 0 2 88 0 0",
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to move rapidly",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "svištět"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 10 0 0 0 0 2 88 0 0",
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to move rapidly",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "uhánět"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 10 0 0 0 0 2 88 0 0",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to move rapidly",
"word": "rynnätä"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 10 0 0 0 0 2 88 0 0",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to move rapidly",
"word": "sännätä"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 10 0 0 0 0 2 88 0 0",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to move rapidly",
"word": "syöksyä"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 10 0 0 0 0 2 88 0 0",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to move rapidly",
"word": "düsen"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 10 0 0 0 0 2 88 0 0",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to move rapidly",
"word": "rasen"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 10 0 0 0 0 2 88 0 0",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to move rapidly",
"word": "sausen"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 10 0 0 0 0 2 88 0 0",
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to move rapidly",
"word": "störta"
}
]
},
{
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"parents": [
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"Entry maintenance"
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"text": "The Biſhop, and the Duke of Gloſters men, / Forbidden late to carry any VVeapon, / Haue fill'd their Pockets full of peeble ſtones; / And banding themſelues in contrary parts, / Doe pelt ſo faſt at one anothers Pate.",
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"ref": "1645 March 14 (Gregorian calendar), J[ohn] M[ilton], Colasterion: A Reply to a Nameles Answer against The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce. […], [London?: s.n.], →OCLC, page 2:",
"text": "[T]heſe light armed refuters vvould have don pelting at thir three lines utterd vvith a ſage delivery of no reaſon, but an impotent and vvors then Bonner-like cenſure, […]",
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"text": "Arch-biſhop [John] VVhitgifts [prelates], much Pen-perſecuted, and pelted at vvith Libellous Pamphlets, but ſupported by Queen Elizabeths Zeal to maintain the Diſcipline etabliſhed, […]",
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"text": "[S]he [the church] holdeth the veritie of his bodie [i.e., Jesus's body in the Eucharist]: ſhe pelteth not vvith God, denying this to be his body, bicauſe ſhe is cōmaunded to do this in remembrãce of hym: but ſhe doth beſt remembre hym, vvhen ſhe hath the bodie vvhich ſuffered, before her.",
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"ref": "1673, John Milton, Of True Religion, Heresie, Schism, Toleration, and What Best Means may be Us’d against the Growth of Popery. […]; republished in A Complete Collection of the Historical, Political, and Miscellaneous Works of John Milton, […], volume II, Amsterdam [actually London: s.n.], 1698, →OCLC, page 811:",
"text": "But if they vvho diſſent in matters not eſſential to Belief, vvhile the common Adverſary is in the Field, ſhall ſtand jarring and pelting at one another, they vvill ſoon be routed and ſubdued.",
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"ref": "1655, Thomas Fuller, “Section V. Thomæ Hanson, Amico Meo.”, in The Church-history of Britain; […], London: […] Iohn Williams […], →OCLC, (please specify |book=I to XI), subsection 29, 30 (The Pope’s Fume against This Good Bishop Quenched by a Spanish Cardinal.), page 359:",
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"ref": "1907, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, “The Battle of the North Atlantic”, in The War in the Air: […], London: George Bell and Sons, published 1908, →OCLC, § 1, page 146:",
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"word": "beaverskin"
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{
"word": "cowskin"
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{
"word": "foxskin"
},
{
"word": "goatskin"
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{
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"word": "pell"
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{
"word": "pellage"
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{
"word": "pellagra"
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{
"word": "pellicle"
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{
"word": "peltry"
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"word": "pilch"
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"ref": "1879, R[ichard] J[efferies], “The First Gun”, in The Amateur Poacher, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], →OCLC, page 1:",
"text": "Perhaps the reason why he [a stuffed fox] seemed in such a ghastly rage was that he did not come by his death fairly. Otherwise his pelt would not have been so perfect. And why else was he put away up there out of sight?—and so magnificent a brush as he had too.",
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"ref": "1922 July, E[velyn] Charles Vivian, “White Man’s Magic: A Story of the Canadian Mounted Police”, in The Boy’s Own Paper, volume XLV, part 9, London: “Boy’s Own Paper” Office, […], →OCLC, page 617, column 1:",
"text": "My people got themselves pelts and pelts—there was such a trapping as comes but few times in a life. Pelts and pelts, the silver and the grey—fine pelts.",
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"ref": "1697, Virgil, “The Third Book of the Georgics”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, page 116, lines 670–673:",
"text": "The Cauſes and the Signs ſhall next be told, / Of ev'ry Sickneſs that infects the Fold [of sheep]. / A ſcabby Tetter on their pelts vvill ſtick, / VVhen the ravv Rain has pierc'd 'em to the quick: […]",
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"ref": "1938, Norman Lindsay, chapter XVII, in Age of Consent, London: T[homas] Werner Laurie […], →OCLC, page 177:",
"text": "Put on your dress, ye shameless witch, standin' there in your pelt I'll take a strap to, for havin' the conceit out of you, for by your idling had lost me the sup of gin to keep the breath of life in me. Cover your scut, or I'll welt the skin off it.",
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"A garment made from animal skins."
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],
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"ref": "1852, Richard F[rancis] Burton, “A Day with the Bashah”, in Falconry in the Valley of the Indus, London: John Van Voorst, […], →OCLC, page 60:",
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{
"code": "sq",
"lang": "Albanian",
"sense": "skin of an animal with the hair or wool on",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "gëzof"
},
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"code": "ale",
"lang": "Aleut",
"sense": "skin of an animal with the hair or wool on",
"word": "chngax̂"
},
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"code": "ar",
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"roman": "farw",
"sense": "skin of an animal with the hair or wool on",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "فَرْو"
},
{
"code": "ar",
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"sense": "skin of an animal with the hair or wool on",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "شَعَر"
},
{
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
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"sense": "skin of an animal with the hair or wool on",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "شَعْر"
},
{
"code": "syc",
"lang": "Aramaic",
"sense": "skin of an animal with the hair or wool on",
"tags": [
"Classical-Syriac",
"masculine"
],
"word": "ܫܠܚܐ"
},
{
"code": "hy",
"lang": "Armenian",
"roman": "muštak",
"sense": "skin of an animal with the hair or wool on",
"word": "մուշտակ"
},
{
"code": "axm",
"lang": "Middle Armenian",
"roman": "muštak",
"sense": "skin of an animal with the hair or wool on",
"word": "մուշտակ"
},
{
"code": "xcl",
"lang": "Old Armenian",
"roman": "mortʻ",
"sense": "skin of an animal with the hair or wool on",
"word": "մորթ"
},
{
"code": "ba",
"lang": "Bashkir",
"roman": "tire",
"sense": "skin of an animal with the hair or wool on",
"word": "тире"
},
{
"code": "be",
"lang": "Belarusian",
"roman": "skúra",
"sense": "skin of an animal with the hair or wool on",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "ску́ра"
},
{
"code": "be",
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"roman": "škúra",
"sense": "skin of an animal with the hair or wool on",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "шку́ра"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "kóža",
"sense": "skin of an animal with the hair or wool on",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "ко́жа"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "kožúh",
"sense": "skin of an animal with the hair or wool on",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "кожу́х"
},
{
"code": "my",
"lang": "Burmese",
"roman": "a.re-pra:",
"sense": "skin of an animal with the hair or wool on",
"word": "အရေပြား"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "skin of an animal with the hair or wool on",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "pell"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "skin of an animal with the hair or wool on",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "pellissa"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "máopí",
"sense": "skin of an animal with the hair or wool on",
"word": "毛皮"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "skin of an animal with the hair or wool on",
"word": "surová kůže"
},
{
"code": "dlg",
"lang": "Dolgan",
"sense": "skin of an animal with the hair or wool on",
"word": "тирии"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "skin of an animal with the hair or wool on",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "pels"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "skin of an animal with the hair or wool on",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "dos"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "skin of an animal with the hair or wool on",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "huid"
},
{
"code": "nl",
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"sense": "skin of an animal with the hair or wool on",
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"feminine"
],
"word": "vacht"
},
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"sense": "skin of an animal with the hair or wool on",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
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},
{
"code": "emk",
"lang": "Eastern Maninkakan",
"sense": "skin of an animal with the hair or wool on",
"word": "ɲúfukudu"
},
{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "skin of an animal with the hair or wool on",
"word": "pelto"
},
{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "skin of an animal with the hair or wool on",
"word": "felo"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"english": "preserved",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "skin of an animal with the hair or wool on",
"word": "talja"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "skin of an animal with the hair or wool on",
"word": "turkis"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"english": "raw",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "skin of an animal with the hair or wool on",
"word": "vuota"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "skin of an animal with the hair or wool on",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "peau"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "skin of an animal with the hair or wool on",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "dépouille"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "skin of an animal with the hair or wool on",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "pel"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "skin of an animal with the hair or wool on",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "pelello"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "skin of an animal with the hair or wool on",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "pelica"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "skin of an animal with the hair or wool on",
"tags": [
"archaic",
"feminine"
],
"word": "pena"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "skin of an animal with the hair or wool on",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Pelz"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "skin of an animal with the hair or wool on",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Balg"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "skin of an animal with the hair or wool on",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "Fell"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "petsí",
"sense": "skin of an animal with the hair or wool on",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "πετσί"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "déras",
"sense": "skin of an animal with the hair or wool on",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "δέρας"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "proveiá",
"sense": "skin of an animal with the hair or wool on",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "προβειά"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "tomári",
"sense": "skin of an animal with the hair or wool on",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "τομάρι"
},
{
"code": "gn",
"lang": "Guaraní",
"sense": "skin of an animal with the hair or wool on",
"word": "tague"
},
{
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "skin of an animal with the hair or wool on",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "belgur"
},
{
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "skin of an animal with the hair or wool on",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "feldur"
},
{
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "skin of an animal with the hair or wool on",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "loðskinn"
},
{
"code": "iu",
"lang": "Inuktitut",
"roman": "amiq",
"sense": "skin of an animal with the hair or wool on",
"word": "ᐊᒥᖅ"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "skin of an animal with the hair or wool on",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "peall"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "skin of an animal with the hair or wool on",
"tags": [
"literary",
"masculine"
],
"word": "bian"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "skin of an animal with the hair or wool on",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "pelle grezza"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "skin of an animal with the hair or wool on",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "pelle non conciata"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "skin of an animal with the hair or wool on",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "pelliccia"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "fā",
"sense": "skin of an animal with the hair or wool on",
"word": "ファー"
},
{
"alt": "かく",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "kaku",
"sense": "skin of an animal with the hair or wool on",
"word": "革"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"sense": "skin of an animal with the hair or wool on",
"word": "毛皮"
},
{
"alt": "けがわ, もうひ, kegawa",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"sense": "skin of an animal with the hair or wool on",
"word": "毛革"
},
{
"alt": "毛皮",
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "mopi",
"sense": "skin of an animal with the hair or wool on",
"word": "모피"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "skin of an animal with the hair or wool on",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "pellis"
},
{
"code": "lv",
"lang": "Latvian",
"sense": "skin of an animal with the hair or wool on",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "kažoks"
},
{
"code": "gv",
"lang": "Manx",
"sense": "skin of an animal with the hair or wool on",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "crackan"
},
{
"code": "nv",
"lang": "Navajo",
"sense": "skin of an animal with the hair or wool on",
"word": "akágí"
},
{
"code": "nv",
"lang": "Navajo",
"sense": "skin of an animal with the hair or wool on",
"word": "asgąʼ"
},
{
"code": "nv",
"lang": "Navajo",
"sense": "skin of an animal with the hair or wool on",
"word": "hakágí"
},
{
"code": "se",
"lang": "Northern Sami",
"sense": "skin of an animal with the hair or wool on",
"word": "roavgu"
},
{
"code": "oj",
"lang": "Ojibwe",
"sense": "skin of an animal with the hair or wool on",
"word": "-wayaan"
},
{
"code": "orv",
"lang": "Old East Slavic",
"roman": "skora",
"sense": "skin of an animal with the hair or wool on",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "скора"
},
{
"code": "zlw-opl",
"lang": "Old Polish",
"sense": "skin of an animal with the hair or wool on",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "koża"
},
{
"code": "ota",
"lang": "Ottoman Turkish",
"roman": "kürk",
"sense": "skin of an animal with the hair or wool on",
"word": "كورك"
},
{
"code": "pdc",
"lang": "Pennsylvania German",
"sense": "skin of an animal with the hair or wool on",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Bels"
},
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"text": "The children are pelting each other with snowballs.",
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"text": "They pelted the attacking army with bullets.",
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"ref": "1563 March 30 (Gregorian calendar), John Foxe, “The Actes of Paschalis II. Bishop of Rome”, in Actes and Monuments of These Latter and Perillous Dayes, […], London: […] Iohn Day, […], →OCLC, book I, page [51]:",
"text": "Pope Lucius [II] being also amongst thē in the fight, well pelted with stones and blowes liued not long after.",
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},
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"ref": "1719, [Daniel Defoe], The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe; […], London: […] W[illiam] Taylor […], →OCLC, page 223:",
"text": "[T]hey ſtood pelting us from the Shore vvith Darts and Arrovvs; […]",
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"ref": "1847, Arthur Smith, “Of the Gent who Goes to the Races”, in The Natural History of the Gent, London: David Bogue, […], →OCLC, page 48:",
"text": "He pelteth old gentlemen driving four-wheeled chaises with snuff-boxes, and distributeth pincushions to the domestics, breaking windows withal.",
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},
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"ref": "1927 May, Virginia Woolf, chapter 4, in To the Lighthouse (Uniform Edition of the Works of Virginia Woolf), new edition, London: Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, […], published 1930, →OCLC, part II (Time Passes), page 207:",
"text": "[C]hildren pelting each other with handfuls of grass,— […]",
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{
"ref": "2020 October, Christian Lauren [pseudonym; Christina Hobbs and Lauren Billings], chapter 1, in In a Holidaze, New York, N.Y.: Gallery Books, →ISBN, page 8:",
"text": "Standing again, he pelts Kyle in the stomach [with a snowball], who pelts Dad on the arm.",
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"ref": "1816, [Walter Scott], chapter III, in The Antiquary. […], volume II, Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, →OCLC, page 83:",
"text": "[…] Martin survived […] to receive absolution from the very priest, whom, precisely on that day three years, he had assisted to pelt out of the hamlet of Morgenbrodt.",
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{
"ref": "1885, Richard F[rancis] Burton, transl. and editor, “The Translator’s Foreword”, in A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights’ Entertainments, now Entituled The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night […], Shammar edition, volume I, [London]: […] Burton Club […], →OCLC, page viii:",
"text": "Presently, sweetened by distance, would be heard the wild weird song of lads and lasses, driving or rather pelting, through the gloaming their sheep and goats; […]",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1939 May 4, James Joyce, Finnegans Wake, London: Faber and Faber Limited, →OCLC; republished London: Faber & Faber Limited, 1960, →OCLC, part I, page 89:",
"text": "So he was pelted out of the coram populo, was he?",
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"To force (someone or something) to move using blows or the throwing of missiles."
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"ref": "c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, The Tragœdy of Othello, the Moore of Venice. […] (First Quarto), London: […] N[icholas] O[kes] for Thomas Walkley, […], published 1622, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i], page 21:",
"text": "The chiding billovv ſeemes to pelt the cloudes, / The vvinde ſhak'd ſurge, vvith high and monſtrous mayne, / Seemes to caſt vvater, on the burning Beare, […]",
"type": "quote"
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{
"ref": "1622 (first performance), Thomas Middleton, William Rowley, The Changeling: […], London: […] [Thomas Newcombe] for Humphrey Moseley, […], published 1653, →OCLC, Act II, signature [C4], verso:",
"text": "Ile ſtand this ſtorm of hail though the ſtones pelt me.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1782, [Frances Burney], “A Sketch of High Life”, in Cecilia, or Memoirs of an Heiress. […], volume III, London: […] T[homas] Payne and Son […], and T[homas] Cadell […], →OCLC, book VI, pages 269–270:",
"text": "They had gone but a fevv ſteps, before there came a violent ſhovver of hail; and the vvind, vvhich vvas very high, being immediately in their faces, Cecilia vvas ſo pelted and incommoded, that ſhe vvas frequently obliged to ſtop, in defiance of her utmoſt efforts to force herſelf forvvard.",
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},
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"ref": "1847 October 16, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], chapter X, in Jane Eyre. An Autobiography. […], volume II, London: Smith, Elder, and Co., […], →OCLC, page 268:",
"text": "On sleeping, I continued in dreams the idea of a dark and gusty night. […] [T]otal obscurity environed me; rain pelted me; […]",
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},
{
"ref": "1869, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter LV, in The Innocents Abroad, or The New Pilgrims’ Progress; […], Hartford, Conn.: American Publishing Company. […], →OCLC, page 597:",
"text": "The sun so pelted us that the tears ran down our cheeks once or twice.",
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"text": "The children pelted apples at us.",
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"ref": "1704, [Jonathan Swift], “Section XI. A Tale of a Tub.”, in A Tale of a Tub. […], London: […] John Nutt, […], →OCLC, pages 203–204:",
"text": "[I]n his Paroxyſms, as he vvalked the Streets, he vvould have his Pockets loaden vvith Stones, to pelt at the Signs.",
"type": "quote"
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"ref": "1852 March – 1853 September, Charles Dickens, “Interlopers”, in Bleak House, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1853, →OCLC, pages 327–328:",
"text": "Will someone hand me anything hard and bruising to pelt at her?",
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"ref": "1710 July 8 (Gregorian calendar), Isaac Bickerstaff [pseudonym; Richard Steele et al.], “Tuesday, June 27, 1710”, in The Tatler, number 190; republished in [Richard Steele], editor, The Tatler, […], London stereotype edition, volume III, London: I. Walker and Co.; […], 1822, →OCLC, page 105:",
"text": "I have […] had the honour to be pelted with several epistles to expostulate with me on that subject.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1791, James Boswell, quoting Samuel Johnson, “[1775]”, in The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. […], volume I, London: […] Henry Baldwin, for Charles Dilly, […], →OCLC, page 454:",
"text": "They don't knovv hovv to go about their abuſe. VVho vvill read a five ſhilling book againſt me? No, Sir, if they had vvit, they ſhould have kept pelting me vvith pamphlets.",
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{
"text": "It’s pelting down out there!",
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"ref": "c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act II, scene iv:",
"text": "Accurſt be he that firſt inuented war, / They knew not, ah, they knew not ſimple men, / How thoſe were hit by pelting Cannon ſhot, / Stand ſtaggering like a quiuering Aſpen leafe, / Fearing the force of Boreas boiſtrous blaſts.",
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},
{
"ref": "1819 (date written), John Keats, “Fancy”, in Lamia, Isabella, the Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems, London: […] [Thomas Davison] for Taylor and Hessey, […], published 1820, →OCLC, page 122:",
"text": "Ever let the Fancy roam, / Pleasure never is at home: / At a touch sweet Pleasure melteth, / Like to bubbles when rain pelteth; […]",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1822 May, J. M. Lacey, “Address to the First of April Last—a Very Cold Day”, in The Lady’s Monthly Museum; or, Polite Repository of Amusement and Instruction; […], volume XV (Improved Series), London: […] Dean and Munday, […], →OCLC, stanza 2, page 299:",
"text": "Thou peltest fast with icy show'r, / Which surely cannot please one; / The wind too has such boist'rous pow'r, / 'Tis quite enough to freeze one.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1840, R[ichard] H[enry] D[ana], Jr., chapter XXXII, in Two Years before the Mast. […] (Harper’s Family Library; no. CVI), New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers […], →OCLC, page 404:",
"text": "On deck, all was dark as a pocket, and either a dead calm, with the rain pouring steadily down, or, more generally, a violent gale dead ahead, with rain pelting horizontally, and occasional variations of hail and sleet;— […]",
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"text": "I pelted across to where my family was sitting.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"text": "The bus went pelting down the hill.",
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"ref": "1843 December 19, Charles Dickens, “Stave I. Marley’s Ghost.”, in A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas, London: Chapman & Hall, […], →OCLC, page 18:",
"text": "The office was closed in a twinkling, and the clerk, with the long ends of his white comforter dangling below his waist (for he boasted no great-coat), went down a slide on Cornhill, at the end of a lane of boys, twenty times, in honour of its being Christmas-eve, and then ran home to Camden Town as hard as he could pelt, to play at blindman's-buff.",
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},
{
"ref": "1892 March, “Mother Talks—A Spring Walk”, in Cora L. Stockham, Andrea Hofer, editors, The Kindergarten Magazine […], volume IV, number VII, Chicago, Ill.: Kindergarten Publishing Company, →OCLC, page 471, column 2:",
"text": "Spring, is ye comen in, / Dappled larke singe, / Snow melteth, / Runnel pelteth, / Smelleth wind of newe buddinge.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2019 November 21, Samanth Subramanian, “How our home delivery habit reshaped the world”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-07-11:",
"text": "While we choose and buy our purchases with mere inch-wide movements of our thumbs, they are busy rearranging the physical world so that our deliveries pelt towards us in ever-quicker time.",
"type": "quote"
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],
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"To move rapidly, especially in or on a conveyance."
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{
"ref": "1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Sixt”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i], page 106, column 1:",
"text": "The Biſhop, and the Duke of Gloſters men, / Forbidden late to carry any VVeapon, / Haue fill'd their Pockets full of peeble ſtones; / And banding themſelues in contrary parts, / Doe pelt ſo faſt at one anothers Pate.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1645 March 14 (Gregorian calendar), J[ohn] M[ilton], Colasterion: A Reply to a Nameles Answer against The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce. […], [London?: s.n.], →OCLC, page 2:",
"text": "[T]heſe light armed refuters vvould have don pelting at thir three lines utterd vvith a ſage delivery of no reaſon, but an impotent and vvors then Bonner-like cenſure, […]",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "a. 1662 (date written), Thomas Fuller, “Since the Reformation”, in The History of the Worthies of England, London: […] J[ohn] G[rismond,] W[illiam] L[eybourne] and W[illiam] G[odbid], published 1662, →OCLC, page 17:",
"text": "Arch-biſhop [John] VVhitgifts [prelates], much Pen-perſecuted, and pelted at vvith Libellous Pamphlets, but ſupported by Queen Elizabeths Zeal to maintain the Diſcipline etabliſhed, […]",
"type": "quote"
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{
"ref": "1564 December 1 (Gregorian calendar), Iohn Rastell [i.e., John Rastell], “[Of Corpus Christi Daye and of the Seruice of that Holye Daye]”, in A Confutation of a Sermon, Pronoũced by M. Iuell, at Paules Crosse, the Second Sondaie before Easter (which Catholikes Doe Call Passion Sondaie) Anno Dñi .M.D.LX., Antwerp: […] Ægidius Diest, →OCLC, folio 84, verso:",
"text": "[S]he [the church] holdeth the veritie of his bodie [i.e., Jesus's body in the Eucharist]: ſhe pelteth not vvith God, denying this to be his body, bicauſe ſhe is cōmaunded to do this in remembrãce of hym: but ſhe doth beſt remembre hym, vvhen ſhe hath the bodie vvhich ſuffered, before her.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1594, William Shakespeare, Lucrece (First Quarto), London: […] Richard Field, for Iohn Harrison, […], →OCLC, signature K2, verso:",
"text": "Another ſmotherd, ſeemes to pelt and ſvveare, / And in their rage ſuch ſignes of rage they beare, […]",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1673, John Milton, Of True Religion, Heresie, Schism, Toleration, and What Best Means may be Us’d against the Growth of Popery. […]; republished in A Complete Collection of the Historical, Political, and Miscellaneous Works of John Milton, […], volume II, Amsterdam [actually London: s.n.], 1698, →OCLC, page 811:",
"text": "But if they vvho diſſent in matters not eſſential to Belief, vvhile the common Adverſary is in the Field, ſhall ſtand jarring and pelting at one another, they vvill ſoon be routed and ſubdued.",
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"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "ḥaḏafa",
"sense": "to bombard (someone or something) with missiles",
"word": "حَذَفَ"
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{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "bombardiram",
"sense": "to bombard (someone or something) with missiles",
"word": "бомбардирам"
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{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "to bombard (someone or something) with missiles",
"word": "bombardejar"
},
{
"code": "ceb",
"lang": "Cebuano",
"sense": "to bombard (someone or something) with missiles",
"word": "rakrak"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to bombard (someone or something) with missiles",
"tags": [
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{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to bombard (someone or something) with missiles",
"word": "bombarderen"
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{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
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"word": "bekogelen"
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{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to bombard (someone or something) with missiles",
"word": "bestoken"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to bombard (someone or something) with missiles",
"word": "pommittaa"
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{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
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"word": "bombarder"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to bombard (someone or something) with missiles",
"word": "beschießen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to bombard (someone or something) with missiles",
"word": "bombardieren"
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{
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"lang": "German",
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"sense": "to bombard (someone or something) with missiles"
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"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
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"word": "ausa yfir"
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"code": "is",
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"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to bombard (someone or something) with missiles",
"word": "epa"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to bombard (someone or something) with missiles",
"word": "epaepa"
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{
"code": "mi",
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"sense": "to bombard (someone or something) with missiles",
"word": "karaepa"
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{
"code": "mi",
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"sense": "to bombard (someone or something) with missiles",
"word": "karaepaepa"
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{
"code": "enm",
"lang": "Middle English",
"sense": "to bombard (someone or something) with missiles",
"word": "totorven"
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"code": "nup",
"lang": "Nupe",
"sense": "to bombard (someone or something) with missiles",
"word": "tswán"
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"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to bombard (someone or something) with missiles",
"tags": [
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],
"word": "obrzucać"
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"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to bombard (someone or something) with missiles",
"tags": [
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],
"word": "obrzucić"
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"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to bombard (someone or something) with missiles",
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"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
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"sense": "to bombard (someone or something) with missiles",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "забра́сывать"
},
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"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
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"sense": "to bombard (someone or something) with missiles",
"tags": [
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"word": "заброса́ть"
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"sense": "to bombard (someone or something) with missiles",
"tags": [
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],
"word": "заки́дывать"
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"code": "ru",
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"sense": "to bombard (someone or something) with missiles",
"tags": [
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"lang": "Spanish",
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"word": "bombardear"
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"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to bombard (someone or something) with missiles",
"word": "bombardera"
},
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"code": "tl",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"sense": "to bombard (someone or something) with missiles",
"word": "ratratín"
},
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"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "zakyduvaty",
"sense": "to bombard (someone or something) with missiles",
"word": "закидувати"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "zakydaty",
"sense": "to bombard (someone or something) with missiles",
"word": "закидати"
},
{
"code": "wny",
"lang": "Wanyi",
"sense": "to bombard (someone or something) with missiles",
"word": "rangkijbi"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to force (someone or something) to move using blows or the throwing of missiles",
"word": "pakottaa iskuin"
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"code": "fi",
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"sense": "of a number of small objects or the sun’s rays: to beat down or fall on (someone or something) in a shower",
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{
"code": "fi",
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"code": "fi",
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{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "hvǎrljam",
"sense": "to (continuously) throw (missiles) at",
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{
"code": "bg",
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"roman": "zamervam",
"sense": "to (continuously) throw (missiles) at",
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"code": "cs",
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"sense": "to (continuously) throw (missiles) at",
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"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to (continuously) throw (missiles) at",
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],
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},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to (continuously) throw (missiles) at",
"word": "heitellä"
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{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to (continuously) throw (missiles) at",
"word": "heittää"
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{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"note": "with force",
"sense": "to (continuously) throw (missiles) at",
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{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to (continuously) throw (missiles) at",
"word": "paskata"
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{
"code": "gl",
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"sense": "to (continuously) throw (missiles) at",
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"code": "de",
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"sense": "to (continuously) throw (missiles) at",
"word": "bewerfen"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to (continuously) throw (missiles) at",
"word": "epa"
},
{
"code": "mi",
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"sense": "to (continuously) throw (missiles) at",
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{
"code": "sh",
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"sense": "to (continuously) throw (missiles) at",
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"sense": "to (continuously) throw (missiles) at",
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"code": "uk",
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"code": "uk",
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"sense": "to (continuously) throw (missiles) at",
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"code": "vo",
"lang": "Volapük",
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"word": "bejedön"
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"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "barabanja",
"sense": "to repeatedly beat or hit (someone or something)",
"word": "барабаня"
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{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to repeatedly beat or hit (someone or something)",
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},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to repeatedly beat or hit (someone or something)",
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"code": "fi",
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"sense": "to repeatedly beat or hit (someone or something)",
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{
"code": "fi",
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"sense": "to repeatedly beat or hit (someone or something)",
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"code": "gd",
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"code": "bg",
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"roman": "barabanja",
"sense": "especially of hailstones, rain, or snow: to beat down or fall forcefully or heavily — see also rain down",
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"sense": "especially of hailstones, rain, or snow: to beat down or fall forcefully or heavily — see also rain down",
"word": "stortregenen"
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{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "especially of hailstones, rain, or snow: to beat down or fall forcefully or heavily — see also rain down",
"word": "sataa kaatamalla"
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{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "especially of hailstones, rain, or snow: to beat down or fall forcefully or heavily — see also rain down",
"word": "pleuvoir à verse"
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{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "especially of hailstones, rain, or snow: to beat down or fall forcefully or heavily — see also rain down",
"word": "gießen"
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{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "especially of hailstones, rain, or snow: to beat down or fall forcefully or heavily — see also rain down",
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{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
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{
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "especially of hailstones, rain, or snow: to beat down or fall forcefully or heavily — see also rain down",
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{
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "especially of hailstones, rain, or snow: to beat down or fall forcefully or heavily — see also rain down",
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{
"code": "is",
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"sense": "especially of hailstones, rain, or snow: to beat down or fall forcefully or heavily — see also rain down",
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"code": "km",
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"sense": "especially of hailstones, rain, or snow: to beat down or fall forcefully or heavily — see also rain down",
"word": "ស្រំ"
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{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "especially of hailstones, rain, or snow: to beat down or fall forcefully or heavily — see also rain down",
"word": "störtregna"
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"code": "uk",
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"roman": "barabanyty",
"sense": "especially of hailstones, rain, or snow: to beat down or fall forcefully or heavily — see also rain down",
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"code": "uk",
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"sense": "especially of hailstones, rain, or snow: to beat down or fall forcefully or heavily — see also rain down",
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"roman": "profučavam",
"sense": "to move rapidly",
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"ref": "2013 July 15, Karen-Anne Stewart, chapter 19, in Healing Rain (The Rain Trilogy; 2), Bloomington, Ind.: AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 134:",
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