Literary notes about pelt (AI summary)
The term pelt exhibits a rich versatility in literature. Sometimes it designates an animal’s skin used in trade or craft—its fur serving as raw material for leather or as a decorative element ([1], [2], [3])—while in other contexts it functions as a dynamic verb meaning to hurl or strike with objects, ranging from bonbons at a carnival to stones in combat ([4], [5], [6]). Moreover, pelt can describe qualities of a surface in technical discussions about processing and tanning ([7], [8], [9]), and on occasion it even conveys a sense of rapid, forceful movement ([10]). Through these varied uses, the word pelt captures both tangible materiality and energetic action within literary expression.
- 3. Mount for a rug the pelt of some fur animal.
— from Boy Scouts Handbook by Boy Scouts of America - His robe was a beautifully tanned pelt of the grizzly bear.
— from White Otter by Elmer Russell Gregor - The pelt of this animal is a valuable fur.
— from Boy Scouts Handbook by Boy Scouts of America - Not so now, when four hundred souls are dashed frantically together and pelt heads at each other as people throw bonbons at a carnival.
— from Tales of the Trains
Being Some Chapters of Railroad Romance by Tilbury Tramp, Queen's Messenger by Charles James Lever - A certain number of men from each tribe turn out and pelt each other with sticks and logs of wood, until one of the parties gives in.
— from Malay Magic by Walter William Skeat - The people pelt him with plantains, and hoot at him as he runs, and water mingled with cow-dung is sprinkled in his path.
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 7 of 7 by Edgar Thurston - Pelt is a gel which possesses a great development of surface.
— from Animal Proteins by Hugh Garner Bennett - In addition, the pelt has been mordanted with tannin.
— from Animal Proteins by Hugh Garner Bennett - By subsequent treatment with lime and soot, or tar, Ashmore [Footnote: Dingier's Jour ., 1833, 48, 67.] claims to have converted pelt into leather.
— from Synthetic Tannins, Their Synthesis, Industrial Production and Application by Georg Grasser - Roderick grasped the plan of campaign in an instant, and, digging his spurs into Badger’s flank, galloped off full pelt.
— from The Treasure of Hidden Valley by Willis George Emerson