Noun

• S: (n) rain, pelting (anything happening rapidly or in quick successive) "a rain of bullets"; "a pelting of insults"

Verb

• S: (v) pelt, bombard (cast, hurl, or throw repeatedly with some missile) "They pelted each other with snowballs"
• S: (v) pepper, pelt (attack and bombard with or as if with missiles) "pelt the speaker with questions"
• direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term
• entailment
• S: (v) throw (propel through the air) "throw a frisbee"
• derivationally related form
• W: (n) pelter [Related to: pelt] (a thrower of missiles) "the police were too busy to chase the pelters"
• sentence frame
• S: (v) pour, pelt, stream, rain cats and dogs, rain buckets (rain heavily) "Put on your rain coat-- it's pouring outside!"