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say it: pelt
pelt is a verb and noun meaning "cast, hurl, or throw repeatedly with some missile". It carries 5 recorded senses.
rain heavily
“Put on your rain coat-- it's pouring outside!”
body covering of a living animal
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for pelt come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.