pelter

noun

1. One who pelts.

   “With this mighty resolution framed and glassed, and hung over his bed, along with a pleasing representation of a gleaming eye, bearing the legend, "Thou, God, seest me," he managed by bearing himself humbly among his fellows, or rather, by having humility thrust upon him, to avert for a period such calamity as doth befall the Sunday swimmer, the fruit stealer, the school wagger, the root smoker, the Chinaman pelter, and the window smasher.”

   “Sketching is always a peltable or mobable offence, as being contrary to the Koran, and sitting down tempts the pelter.”

   “Young stone-pelters took to the streets and faced armed police who fired straight at them, killing several.”

2. (figuratively, sometimes)A pelting; a shower of missiles, rain, anger, etc.
3. (dated)A pinchpenny; a mean, sordid person; a miser; a skinflint.

verb

1. (dialectal, nonstandard)To pelt.

   “A person is "peltered" when he is subjected to a shower of stones, a shower of hail-stones, or a shower of anything. "Naay, gi'e ower peltering — one at a time! that's enew."”

   “Suddenly Iliin's machine-gun started rattling, peltering the columns, and a second machine-gun followed suit, whilst the Cossacks opened a continuous fire from all sides, seconded by the third, fith and second squadrons.”

   “Chips as big as dinner plates were flying across the lawn and peltering the house like a gang of boys stoning telephone insulators.”