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Word entry · 4 letters

pelt

Best crossword clue

"Animal skin"

4 letters · collected on this word page

4 lettersPronunciation /pɛlt/Part of speech verb, nounSorted elptStarts with PEnds with T1 cluesCommon crossword word
1P2E3L4T

Definitions

  1. attack and bombard with or as if with missiles

Word origin

The verb is derived from the noun.

Used in a sentence

  • My people got themselves pelts and pelts—there was such a trapping as comes but few times in a life. Pelts and pelts, the silver and the grey—fine pelts.
  • Near-synonym: coat
  • The Cauſes and the Signs ſhall next be told, / Of ev'ry Sickneſs that infects the Fold [of sheep]. / A ſcabby Tetter on their pelts vvill ſtick, / VVhen the ravv Rain has pierc'd 'em to the quick: […]

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