pelt

• vt.打つ、投げる；皮を剥ぐ。
• vi.投げ続ける；雨などを急に降らせる
• n. 毛皮；打撃
• n. （ペルト）人名；（E.G.F.）毛皮

ラテン語のpellere「打つ」「叩く」「押す」「駆り立てる」が語源。

ラテン語のpellis、毛皮、皮革、PIE*pel、毛皮、皮、語源フィルム、皮、ペルから。

pelt

pelt: see fell, pellet

pelt (v.)

"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.

pelt (n.)

"skin of a fur-bearing animal," early 15c., of uncertain origin, perhaps a contraction of pelet (late 13c. in Anglo-Latin), from Old French pelete "fine skin, membrane," diminutive of pel "skin," from Latin pellis "skin, hide" (see film (n.)). Or perhaps the source of the English word is Anglo-French pelterie, Old French peletrie "fur skins," from Old French peletier "furrier," from pel.

1. He drove his car through the gates at full pelt .

彼は車を運転して急速にゲートを通過した。

2.Some of the younger men began to pelt one another with snowballs.

若い人たちが雪玉を投げ合い始めた。

3.Alice leapt from the car and ran full pelt towards the emergency room.

アリスは車から飛び降り、必死に救急室に向かった。

4.The boy gave the bully a pelt on the back with a pebble.

その男の子はごろつきの背中を石で投げた。

5.Crowds started to pelt police cars with stones.

人の群れがパトカーに石を投げ始めた。