pelting

Pelting is defined as throwing something at, or bombarding someone with something.

(verb)

When you are throwing rocks at a building, this is an example of a time when you are pelting the building with rocks.
When you keep bombarding someone with questions, this is an example of a time when you are pelting him with questions.

See pelting in Webster's New World College Dictionary

adjective

Archaic mean; miserly; paltry

Origin: prob. < obs. pelt, to haggle, akin ? to paltry

See pelting in American Heritage Dictionary 4

adjective
Archaic

Paltry; petty: “This land . . . /Is now leas'd out . . . /Like to a tenement or pelting farm” (Shakespeare).

Origin:

Origin: Perhaps from dialectal pelt, trash

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