PELTING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pelting mean? 

• PELTING (noun)
  The noun PELTING has 1 sense:

1. anything happening rapidly or in quick successive

  Familiarity information: PELTING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PELTING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Anything happening rapidly or in quick successive

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

pelting; rain

Context example:

a pelting of insults

Hypernyms ("pelting" is a kind of...):

chronological sequence; chronological succession; sequence; succession; successiveness (a following of one thing after another in time)

Derivation:

pelt (cast, hurl, or throw repeatedly with some missile)

 Context examples 

Thirty rounds had been fought in an hour and twenty-five minutes, and the rain was pelting down harder than ever.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“What is the meaning of this?” cried the other “Why are you pelting me?” “I am not pelting you,” answered the first, growling.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

At the range of a couple of hundred yards we emptied our magazines, firing bullet after bullet into the beasts, but with no more effect than if we were pelting them with pellets of paper.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Follow it up! cried Belcher, and in rushed the smith, pelting in his half-arm blows, and taking the returns without a wince, until Crab Wilson went down exhausted in the corner.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)