pelt

Noun

• body covering of a living animal

• the dressed hairy coat of a mammal

Verb

• rain heavily
  • Put on your rain coat-- it's pouring outside!
    

• attack and bombard with or as if with missiles
  • pelt the speaker with questions
    

• cast, hurl, or throw repeatedly with some missile
  • They pelted each other with snowballs
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  hide , skin , fur , pour , stream , rain cats and dogs , rain buckets , pepper , bombard