pelterとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• 韻: -ɛltə(ɹ)

名詞

pelter (複数形 pelters)

1. One who pelts.
   • 1915, H. G. Wells, The Research Magnificent

     Sketching is always a peltable or mobable offence, as being contrary to the Koran, and sitting down tempts the pelter.

   • 2008, Outlook (volume 48, number 35, page 20)

     Young stone-pelters took to the streets and faced armed police who fired straight at them, killing several.

2. (sometimes figuratively) A pelting; a shower of missiles, rain, anger, etc.
3. (dated) A pinchpenny; a mean, sordid person; a miser; a skinflint.

動詞

pelter (三人称単数 現在形 pelters, 現在分詞 peltering, 過去形および過去分詞形 peltered)

1. (dialect or nonstandard) To pelt.
   • 1862, C. Clough Robinson, The Dialect of Leeds and Its Neighbourhood (page 383)

     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."

   • 1923, Petr Nikolaevich Krasnov, From the Two-headed Eagle to the Red Flag, 1894-1921 (page 96)

     Suddenly Iliin's machine-gun started rattling, peltering the columns, and a second machine-gun followed suit, whilst the Cossacks opened a continuous fire from all sides, seconded by the third, fith and second squadrons.

   • c. 1933, Erskine Caldwell, Country Full of Swedes

     Chips as big as dinner plates were flying across the lawn and peltering the house like a gang of boys stoning telephone insulators.

アナグラム

• petrel