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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.
  1. 3. Mount for a rug the pelt of some fur animal.
    — from Boy Scouts Handbook by Boy Scouts of America
  2. His robe was a beautifully tanned pelt of the grizzly bear.
    — from White Otter by Elmer Russell Gregor
  3. The pelt of this animal is a valuable fur.
    — from Boy Scouts Handbook by Boy Scouts of America
  4. 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
  5. 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
  6. 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
  7. Pelt is a gel which possesses a great development of surface.
    — from Animal Proteins by Hugh Garner Bennett
  8. In addition, the pelt has been mordanted with tannin.
    — from Animal Proteins by Hugh Garner Bennett
  9. 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
  10. 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

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