pelt | (noun) body covering of a living animal | Synonyms: hide, skin |
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(noun) the dressed hairy coat of a mammal | Synonyms: fur |
(verb) attack and bombard with or as if with missiles | Synonyms: pepper |
(verb) cast, hurl, or throw repeatedly with some missile | Synonyms: bombard |
(verb) rain heavily | Synonyms: pour, rain buckets, rain cats and dogs, stream |
peltate | (adjective) (of a leaf shape) round, with the stem attached near the center of the lower surface rather than the margin (as a nasturtium leaf for example) | Synonyms: shield-shaped |
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pelter | (noun) a thrower of missiles | - |
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(noun) a heavy rain | Synonyms: cloudburst, deluge, downpour, soaker, torrent, waterspout |
pelting | (noun) anything happening rapidly or in quick successive | Synonyms: rain |
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