[ noun ] anything happening rapidly or in quick successive <noun.attribute> a rain of bulletsa pelting of insults
Pelt \Pelt\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Pelted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Pelting}.] [OE. pelten, pulten, pilten, to thrust, throw, strike; cf. L. pultare, equiv. to pulsare (v. freq. fr. pellere to drive), and E. pulse a beating.] 1. To strike with something thrown or driven; to assail with pellets or missiles, as, to pelt with stones; pelted with hail.
The children billows seem to pelt the clouds. --Shak.
2. To throw; to use as a missile.
My Phillis me with pelted apples plies. --Dryden.
Pelting \Pel"ting\, a. Mean; paltry. [Obs.] --Shak.
The women scattered, but gathered again in small groups and began pelting police squads and the cannon-trucks with rocks and trash.
The storm struck shortly after midnight and continued until 4 a.m. Thursday, pelting the area with hailstorms measuring 1 inch in diameter and winds up to 63 mph.
More than 1,000 people angered by police corruption took to the streets Friday night, burning barricades and pelting riot troopers with firebombs and rocks in a crime-ridden neighborhood.
The students then attacked the troopers blocking the way with shields, pelting police with firebombs and rocks for about 10 minutes.
Assistant Chief Constable Denis O'Toole said after police stormed the unused warehouse in northern England where the party was held, partygoers and drug dealers began pelting the officers with rocks, bricks, broken glass and smashed furniture.
About 250 protesters with economic and ethnic demands rampaged through streets of a city near the Iranian border, setting fire to shops and pelting police with stones, a newspaper reported.
In 1986, a crowd of unruly college and high school students on spring break rampaged through Palm Springs, Calif., pelting police with rocks and bottles.
A huge storm system produced scattered showers and mountain snowfall across the West today after pelting California with hail and stirring up damaging winds.
In Providence, police saw two youths jump into the water from a boat in Mashapaug Pond and try to swim to shore just as a thunderstorm began pelting the area with rain, according to a police spokesman, Lt.
Their firmness makes Richard and England into archetypes of political confusion, the country sold off, 'leased out like to a tenement or pelting farm.'
Palestinian witnesses said the violence erupted when youths trying to stop Arab workers from going to their jobs in Israel turned on the soldiers and began pelting them with stones.