Usually means: Animal skin with fur attached.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. pelt: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. pelt: Merriam-Webster
  3. pelt, pelt: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. pelt, pelt: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. pelt: Collins English Dictionary
  6. pelt: Vocabulary.com
  7. Pelt, pelt: Wordnik
  8. pelt, pelt (down): Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Pelt, pelt: Wiktionary
  10. pelt: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. pelt: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. pelt: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Pelt, pelt: Dictionary.com
  14. pelt (n.), pelt (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. pelt: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Pelt (album), Pelt (band), Pelt (disambiguation), Pelt (municipality), Pelt: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Pelt: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. pelt: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. pelt: Rhymezone
  20. pelt: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. pelt: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. pelt: FreeDictionary.org
  23. pelt: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. pelt: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pelt-: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements

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  1. pelt: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pelt: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
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  2. pelt: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. pelt (n.): Cats
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  4. pelt: Idioms

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bryological (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Roots of Botanical Names (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. pelt: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. PELT: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Book Binding (No longer online)

(Note: See pelted as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  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).
noun:  (also figuratively) The skin of an animal (especially a goat or sheep) with the hair or wool removed, often in preparation for tanning.
noun:  The fur or hair of a living animal.
noun:  (chiefly Ireland, humorous, informal) Human skin, especially when bare; also, a person's hair.
noun:  (obsolete)
noun:  A garment made from animal skins.
noun:  (falconry) The body of any quarry killed by a hawk; also, a dead bird given to a hawk for food.
verb:  To remove the skin from (an animal); to skin.
verb:  Chiefly followed by from: to remove (the skin) from an animal.
verb:  (obsolete, rare) To remove feathers from (a bird).
verb:  (transitive)
verb:  To bombard (someone or something) with missiles.
verb:  To force (someone or something) to move using blows or the throwing of missiles.
verb:  Of a number of small objects (such as raindrops), or the sun's rays: to beat down or fall on (someone or something) in a shower.
verb:  Chiefly followed by at: to (continuously) throw (missiles) at.
verb:  (archaic except British, dialectal) To repeatedly beat or hit (someone or something).
verb:  (figuratively) To assail (someone) with harsh words in speech or writing; to abuse, to insult.
verb:  (intransitive)
verb:  Especially of hailstones, rain, or snow: to beat down or fall forcefully or heavily; to rain down.
verb:  (figuratively) To move rapidly, especially in or on a conveyance.
verb:  (archaic, also figuratively) Chiefly followed by at: to bombard someone or something with missiles continuously.
verb:  (obsolete) To throw out harsh words; to show anger.
noun:  A beating or falling down of hailstones, rain, or snow in a shower.
noun:  (archaic except Ireland) A blow or stroke from something thrown.
noun:  (figuratively)
noun:  (archaic except Ireland) A verbal insult; a jeer, a jibe, a taunt.
noun:  (archaic except Midlands, Southern England (South West)) A fit of anger; an outburst, a rage.
noun:  (chiefly Northern England except in at (full) pelt) An act of moving quickly; a rush.
noun:  A tattered or worthless piece of clothing; a rag.
noun:  (by extension) Anything in a ragged and worthless state; rubbish, trash.
verb:  (intransitive, obsolete) To bargain for a better deal; to haggle.
noun:  (obsolete, rare) Alternative form of pelta
noun:  (historical) A small shield, especially one of an approximately elliptical form, or crescent-shaped.
noun:  (botany) A flat apothecium with no rim.
noun:  A surname.

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