What does "pelt" mean?

Additional senses

1. 2.(Falconry) The body of any quarry killed by the hawk. Pelt rot, a disease affecting the hair or wool of a beast.
2. 3.To strike with something thrown or driven; to assail with pellets or missiles, as, to pelt with stones; pelted with hail. The children billows seem to pelt the clouds. Shak.
3. 4.To throw; to use as a missile. My Phillis me with pelted apples plies. Dryden.
4. 5.To throw missiles. Shak.
5. 6.To throw out words. [Obs.] Another smothered seems to peltand swear. Shak.
6. 7.A blow or stroke from something thrown.