What does Pelting mean?
Definitions for Pelting
pelt·ing
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Princeton's WordNet
rain, peltingnoun
anything happening rapidly or in quick successive
"a rain of bullets"; "a pelting of insults"
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Peltingadjective
This word in William Shakespeare signifies, I know not why, mean; paltry; pitiful.
Could great men thunder, Jove could ne’er be quiet;
For every pelting petty officer
Would use his heav’n for thunder. William Shakespeare.Fogs falling in the land,
Have every pelting river made so proud,
That they have overborn their continents. William Shakespeare.They from sheepcotes and poor pelting villages
Enforce their charity. William Shakespeare.A tenement or pelting farm. William Shakespeare.
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pelting
Pelting refers to the act of repeatedly throwing objects, often small and not typically harmful ones, towards someone or something. It can also refer to a heavy downpour or barrage of something, such as rain, snow, criticisms, or questions.
Webster Dictionary
Pelting
of Pelt
Peltingadjective
mean; paltry
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Pelting
pel′ting, adj. (Shak.) paltry, contemptible.—adv. Pelt′ingly. [Paltry.]
Anagrams for Pelting »
petling
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of Pelting in Chaldean Numerology is: 2
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of Pelting in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2
Examples of Pelting in a Sentence
It was very loud. The hail was pelting the house, hitting the windows, we were just hoping that the windows were going to hold up and wouldn't break, at one point it was so loud that you couldn't hear a person ten feet away from you talking without yelling.
I appeal to the youth not to resort to stone pelting and I also want to appeal to the security forces not to use pellets. I have told security forces to use maximum possible restraint.
There are a lot of mobs outside and they are running around with rods breaking windows and destroying vehicles. We aren't able to leave our houses. They are pelting stones as well.
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