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Webster 1913 Edition

Adj.

Mean; paltry.

[Obs.]

Shak.

ppr.

Striking with something thrown or driven.

Noun.

An assault with any thing thrown.

Adj.

In Shakespeare,mean; paltry. [Improper.]

pelting

pelting ‎(comparative more pelting, superlative most pelting)

(obsolete) mean; paltry
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pelting ‎(plural peltings)

The act by which somebody or something is pelted.
- 1830, Baptist Missionary Magazine (volume 10, page 88)
  […] the rain began to pour down in torrents, and we exposed our persons to the peltings of the shower rather than have our few books and remaining dry clothes injured.