- the skin of an animal, especially with the fur or hair still on itTopics Animalsc2Word Originnoun Middle English: either from obsolete pellet ‘skin’, from an Old French diminutive of pel ‘skin’, from Latin pellis ‘skin’, or a back-formation from peltry.
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Idioms
See pelt in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionary(at) full pelt/tilt
- as fast as possible
- He ran full pelt to the bus stop.
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