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Harrison Hill

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Mar 2, 2017, 4:15:51 PM3/2/17
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...two people pelting down there...

I suspect "peling" is BrE. Kept alive in TV's
"The Jump".

David Kleinecke

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Mar 2, 2017, 4:58:27 PM3/2/17
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There is a verb "pelt" in my English meaning "throw
lots of stuff at" - since you didn't provide context
I dunno whether this is what you are talking out. Not
to mention whether or not 't' is really involved.

Of course I have never heard of "The Jump".

Harrison Hill

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Mar 2, 2017, 5:09:40 PM3/2/17
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I have "pelting" for throwing things at people.

This is the verb "to pelt" down a hill. ie "speed" :)

Harrison Hill

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Mar 2, 2017, 5:17:07 PM3/2/17
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...which I have in my vocabulary, but haven't
used for 30 years.

HVS

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Mar 2, 2017, 6:51:42 PM3/2/17
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On Thu, 2 Mar 2017 13:58:21 -0800 (PST), David Kleinecke
<dklei...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thursday, March 2, 2017 at 1:15:51 PM UTC-8, Harrison Hill wrote:

> > ...two people pelting down there...
> >
> > I suspect "peling" is BrE. Kept alive in TV's
> > "The Jump".

> There is a verb "pelt" in my English meaning "throw
> lots of stuff at" - since you didn't provide context
> I dunno whether this is what you are talking out. Not
> to mention whether or not 't' is really involved.

Like you, "pelt" is an unremarkable verb in my CanEng /BrEng
vocabulary. I'd say it's most frequently used to describe heavy
rainfall, or throwing things (especially eggs) at people.

--
Cheers, Harvey
CanE (30 years) & BrE (34 years),
indiscriminately mixed

Peter Duncanson [BrE]

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Mar 2, 2017, 7:16:54 PM3/2/17
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I haven't noticed "peling" in The Jump. Is it used to mean "pelting"? If
it is, it is probably "pelting" with a silent-t.


--
Peter Duncanson, UK
(in alt.usage.english)

bill van

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Mar 2, 2017, 8:04:52 PM3/2/17
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In article <a1537b46-7bca-4070...@googlegroups.com>,
Pelting rain or hail -- i.e. coming down hard and in large quantities --
is still in use around here.
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bill

quia...@yahoo.com

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Mar 3, 2017, 1:51:07 AM3/3/17
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The meaning is shown in both AHD and M-W. It doesn't say chiefly
British.

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John

Tony Cooper

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Mar 3, 2017, 2:22:57 AM3/3/17
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The "running" meaning of "pelting" is not unknown in the US. It's
used much, but when it is it usually refers to children: "The
students pelted down the hall after dismissal". Why just children, I
don't know.

I Googled "pelting down the hall" (using quote marks) and it came up
with a number of examples of the word used just this way.





--
Tony Cooper - Orlando, Florida

Don Phillipson

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Mar 3, 2017, 8:07:35 AM3/3/17
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"Harrison Hill" <harrison...@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1dae2447-a7b4-4c04...@googlegroups.com...

> ...two people pelting down there...
>
> I suspect "pelting" is BrE. Kept alive in TV's
> "The Jump".

Another contributor may be British weather.
Britons are used to hearing of "pelting rain."
--
Don Phillipson
Carlsbad Springs
(Ottawa, Canada)


CDB

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Mar 3, 2017, 8:36:56 AM3/3/17
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On 3/2/2017 5:09 PM, Harrison Hill wrote:
> David Kleinecke wrote:
>> Harrison Hill wrote:
>>> ...two people pelting down there...

>>> I suspect "peling" is BrE. Kept alive in TV's "The Jump".

>> There is a verb "pelt" in my English meaning "throw lots of stuff
>> at" - since you didn't provide context I dunno whether this is what
>> you are talking out. Not to mention whether or not 't' is really
>> involved.

>> Of course I have never heard of "The Jump".

> I have "pelting" for throwing things at people.

> This is the verb "to pelt" down a hill. ie "speed" :)

Another pelting reality show.


Whiskers

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Mar 3, 2017, 3:12:10 PM3/3/17
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It often pelts with rain in London.

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-- Whiskers
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GordonD

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Mar 4, 2017, 6:01:28 PM3/4/17
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On 03/03/2017 13:04, Don Phillipson wrote:
> "Harrison Hill" <harrison...@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:1dae2447-a7b4-4c04...@googlegroups.com...
>
>> ...two people pelting down there...
>>
>> I suspect "pelting" is BrE. Kept alive in TV's "The Jump".
>
> Another contributor may be British weather. Britons are used to
> hearing of "pelting rain."
>

There's also the term "to give someone pelters", meaning to heap abuse
on them.
--
Gordon Davie
Edinburgh, Scotland

Richard Bollard

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Mar 9, 2017, 8:17:38 PM3/9/17
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On Fri, 03 Mar 2017 00:51:04 -0600, quia...@yahoo.com wrote:

I am familiar with the term "going at full pelt".
--
Richard Bollard
Canberra Australia

To email, I'm at AMT not spAMT.

RH Draney

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Mar 10, 2017, 12:47:04 AM3/10/17
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On 3/9/2017 6:19 PM, Richard Bollard wrote:
>
> I am familiar with the term "going at full pelt".

Contrasting in the fur trade, one supposes, with "split skins"....r

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