pelter
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.22 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
One who pelts.
verb
To pelt.
Example Sentences
- "With this mighty resolution framed and glassed, and hung over his bed, along with a pleasing representation of a gleaming eye, bearing the legend, "Thou, God, seest me," he managed by bearing himself humbly among his fellows, or rather, by having humility thrust upon him, to avert for a period such calamity as doth befall the Sunday swimmer, the fruit stealer, the school wagger, the root smoker, the Chinaman pelter, and the window smasher."
- "Sketching is always a peltable or mobable offence, as being contrary to the Koran, and sitting down tempts the pelter."
- "Young stone-pelters took to the streets and faced armed police who fired straight at them, killing several."
- "A person is "peltered" when he is subjected to a shower of stones, a shower of hail-stones, or a shower of anything. "Naay, gi'e ower peltering — one at a time! that's enew.""
- "Suddenly Iliin's machine-gun started rattling, peltering the columns, and a second machine-gun followed suit, whilst the Cossacks opened a continuous fire from all sides, seconded by the third, fith and second squadrons."
- "Chips as big as dinner plates were flying across the lawn and peltering the house like a gang of boys stoning telephone insulators."
Etymology
From pelt + -er.