Another word for pelt | Synonyms for pelt

Another word for pelt

pelt Synonyms

pelt

n.

hide, skin, fell, hair, wool; see also hide 1. See syn. study at skin.

pelt Synonyms

pelt

v.

swat, wham, knock; see beat 2, hit 1.

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Another word for pelt

noun

The skin of an animal:

fell³, fur, hide², jacket. See surface

verb

To move swiftly:

bolt, bucket, bustle, dart, dash, festinate, flash, fleet, flit, fly, haste, hasten, hurry, hustle, race, rocket, run, rush, sail, scoot, scour², shoot, speed, sprint, tear¹, trot, whirl, whisk, whiz, wing, zip, zoom. (Informal) hotfoot, rip. (Slang) barrel, highball. (Chiefly British) nip¹. Idioms: get a move on, get cracking, go like lightning, go like the wind, hotfoot it, make haste, make time, make tracks, run like the wind, shake a leg, step (or jump) on it. See move

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They have a particularly thin pelt with very close wool of minute curl.
It cannot be regarded as an economical fur, as the pelt is too delicate to resist hard wear.
Pelt light and close in texture, and durable.
Though the fur is cheap in itself, the expense of dressing and working up these little skins is considerable, and they possess the unique charm of an exceptional colour with little weight of pelt; the quality of resistance to friction is, however, so slight as to make them expensive in wear.
He wiped the bloodied knife on its pelt and straightened, meeting her gaze.

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