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Synonyms for pelting
Grammar : Verb |
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Phonetic Transcription : ˈpɛl tɪŋ |
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Définition of pelting
Origin :- "to strike" (with something), c.1500, of unknown origin; perhaps from early 13c. pelten "to strike," variant of pilten "to thrust, strike," from an unrecorded Old English *pyltan, from Medieval Latin *pultiare, from Latin pultare "to beat, knock, strike." Or from Old French peloter "to strike with a ball," from pelote "ball" (see pellet (n.)) [Klein]. Watkins says the source is Latin pellere "to push, drive, strike." Related: Pelted; pelting.
- verb beat; throw hard
- And from that cloud showered these hot, pelting pebbles of pumice stone.
- Extract from : « Buried Cities: Pompeii, Olympia, Mycenae » by Jennie Hall
- The other cab was pelting after him with all the enthusiasm of a hound on a fresh trail.
- Extract from : « The Black Bag » by Louis Joseph Vance
- And there she sat, pelting the two of them with green apples.'
- Extract from : « Echoes of the War » by J. M. Barrie
- Some one, apparently, had been pelting the pulpit with them.
- Extract from : « The Monkey That Would Not Kill » by Henry Drummond
- He saw how I was encumbered, and he must have felt the pelting rain.
- Extract from : « A Houseful of Girls » by Sarah Tytler
- It was far in January, and a terrible fall of snow was pelting down.
- Extract from : « What the Moon Saw: and Other Tales » by Hans Christian Andersen
- He cut the horse across the back with the whip and drove out into the pelting rain.
- Extract from : « The Octopus » by Frank Norris
- Who is this pelting me with mud, as if I were an apple-tree inside of a fence?
- Extract from : « The Little Clay Cart » by (Attributed To) King Shudraka
- It is something to be able to say, in the pelting of a pitiless storm, 'Pour on!
- Extract from : « Expositions of Holy Scripture » by Alexander Maclaren
- Madam Clough had wished to go, but she dreaded the pelting storm.
- Extract from : « The Golden Grasshopper » by W.H.G. Kingston
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