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pelter

Rhymes with -ɛltə(ɹ)

noun pelters

  1. One who pelts. 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
  2. figuratively, sometimes A pelting; a shower of missiles, rain, anger, etc.
  3. dated A pinchpenny; a mean, sordid person; a miser; a skinflint.

verb pelters · peltering · peltered

  1. dialectal, nonstandard To pelt. 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."

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@misc{pelter_2026,
  title = {pelter},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/pelter},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}