Usually means: Throwing small objects forcefully, repeatedly.
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  1. pelting: Merriam-Webster
  2. pelting: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. pelting: Collins English Dictionary
  4. pelting: Vocabulary.com
  5. Pelting, pelting: Wordnik
  6. pelting: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. pelting: Wiktionary
  8. pelting: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. pelting: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Pelting, pelting: Dictionary.com
  11. pelting: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  12. Pelting: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. pelting: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. pelting: Rhymezone
  15. Pelting: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. pelting: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  17. pelting: FreeDictionary.org
  18. pelting: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. pelting: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pelting: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pelting: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pelting: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pelting: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Pelting: Dublin Slang and Phrasebook

(Note: See pelt as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (pelting)

noun:  The act by which somebody or something is pelted.
adjective:  (obsolete) mean; paltry

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