1. The skin of a dead animal with the fur or hair still on it: The hunter was in the process of cutting the dead lion's pelt off its body.
2. A stripped animal skin ready for tanning: Jerome added the pelt of the fox to the others that were going to be prepared for making leather from rawhides.

1. To remove the skin from a deal animal: In the decumentary film, the hunter pelted the rabbit he had killed.
2. To bombard or assail someone with some kind of words or weapon or projectile: After the lecture, members of the audience pelted the speaker with many questions.
3. To throw or cast something again and again: The children pelted each other with snowballs after school was over.
4. To rain excessively: Wilber didn't want to go outside that afternoon because it was pelting heavily and constantly the whole time.