noun

• (also figuratively) The skin of an animal (especially a goat or sheep) with the hair or wool removed, often in preparation for tanning.
• (chiefly Ireland, humorous, informal) Human skin, especially when bare; also, a person's hair.
  "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."
• (obsolete)
• (obsolete)
  "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.""

verb

• (obsolete, rare) To remove feathers from (a bird).
  "A Man took an Eagle, Pelted her VVings, and put her among his Hens. Somebody came and bought This Eagle, and preſently Nevv-Feather'd her."

verb

• (transitive)
  "The children are pelting each other with snowballs."
• (transitive)
  "[…] 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."
• (transitive)
  "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, […]"
• (transitive)
  "The children pelted apples at us."

noun

• (archaic except Ireland) A blow or stroke from something thrown.
  "[T]he cripple, in falling, gave him ſuch a good pelt on the head vvith his crutch, that the blood follovved."
• (figuratively)
• (figuratively)
  "The pope [Innocent IV] being in this pelt, Ægidus, a Spanish cardinal, thus interposed his gravity: […]"
• (chiefly Northern England except in at (full) pelt) An act of moving quickly; a rush.
  "It's a good day off us anyhow, and they're all going south-west by south full pelt as hard as they can go."