pelt

Nouns

• (n) the dressed hairy coat of a mammal fur,
• (n) body covering of a living animal hide, skin,

Verbs

• (v) cast, hurl, or throw repeatedly with some missile
  • They pelted each other with snowballs
  bombard,
• (v) attack and bombard with or as if with missiles
  • pelt the speaker with questions
  pepper,
• (v) rain heavily
  • Put on your rain coat-- it's pouring outside!
  rain buckets, rain cats and dogs, stream, pour,

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