The word 'pelt' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it as a verb to describe throwing something with force or open rain falling or as a noun to refer to the animal skin or fur of a mammal. Example sentence: "She pelted the thief with stones until he ran away."
Updated at 11.08am BST Facebook Twitter Google plus Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Google plus close 11.01am BST11 01 Preamble Hello and welcome to the second stage of this year's Tour de France – this 201km pelt from York to Sheffield marks the end of the Tour's sojourn in Yorkshire, and by and large, it's been a roaring success.
It leaves Chelsea potentially short of firepower when they travel to Old Trafford on Sunday, with doubts over Diego Costa as well as Didier Drogba's capacity to play for 90 minutes at full pelt.
The west coast of Scotland is a most wondrous place but a capricious mistress, as likely to obscure with a thick pelt of dreich grey as reveal stunning land and seascapes.
The barrier at which Ratzenberger died is only seconds from there at screaming full pelt, or a few minutes' stroll.
And at the bottom, the same smiling athlete, is relaxed and totally cool.If this isn't a re-incarnation of the true Olympic spirit and the "joy of effort", then pelt me with snowballs.
During the campaign, unionists will pelt him with questions.
A vast pelt of glossy white fur with head intact and fangs bared in a frozen snarl, it dominates the room.
DECKED out in a leopard-skin mantle and an animal-pelt loincloth together with white designer sneakers, South Africa's 67-year-old president, Jacob Zuma, celebrated his marriage to his third concurrent wife (and fifth bride in all) in a grand Zulu ceremony attended by some 3,000 guests at his family home deep in rural KwaZulu-Natal.
Etsy's startling success is a result of tapping into two unfulfilled needs: it provides an easy route to market for makers; and it enables everyone to buy products that are interesting, individual and handmade; items that have a bit of soul (although some might balk at member FeatherAhead's taxidermied coyote-pelt scarf).
No sane person intends to go down a path where Saturdays are spent changing from jeans to a Dothraki pelt-skin costume in the back of a Ford Focus in a Milton Keynes conference centre car-park before meeting their friend Nige (him of the egg-box dragon costume and blow-torch mouth o' fire effect) but cosplay has to start somewhere.
Bugg's skiffle-billy roots remain, but they benefit from a confidence upgrade on the full-pelt opening tracks, which lay into Twitter ("There's a Beast and We All Feed It") and, on "Slumville Sunrise", reiterate his hunger to spread his wings ("This place is just not for me") beyond his birthplace.
