Associations to the word «Pelter»

Wiktionary

PELTER, noun. One who pelts.
PELTER, noun. A pinchpenny; a mean, sordid person; a miser; a skinflint.

Dictionary definition

PELTER, noun. A heavy rain.
PELTER, noun. A thrower of missiles; "the police were too busy to chase the pelters".

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne