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What is the noun for pelts?

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pelt
  1. The skin of a beast with the hair on; a raw or undressed hide; a skin preserved with the hairy or woolly covering on it.
  2. The body of any quarry killed by a hawk.
  3. (humorous) Human skin.
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  5. Examples:
    1. “Giant pandas are also poached as their pelt carries a high price in the black market.”
      “About mid-day, however, a furious pelt of rain came down and washed the heart out of the French.”
pelter
  1. One who pelts.
  2. (dated) A pinchpenny; a mean, sordid person; a miser; a skinflint.
  3. Examples:
    1. “You don't leave us, Mr. pelter, till the afternoon, d'ye see?”
      “If pelter was rapid, decided, daring, he was also a little hand-over-hand.”
      “On the positively rainy mornings, my walk is to pelter Bridge and back.”
peltry
  1. Pelts or skins, collectively; skins with the fur on them; furs.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “The list of animals listed across the top of the ledger is representative of the types of peltry exchanged during this period.”
      “If I would not as lief as forty shillings have done with broidery and peltry, then the moon is made of green cheese.”
      “The iron of the Chinese, as I have had occasion to observe, is remarkably bad, and all their articles of peltry are imported.”
peltmonger
  1. A dealer in pelts (animal skins).
  2. Synonyms:
pelting
pelt
  1. A blow or stroke from something thrown.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Giant pandas are also poached as their pelt carries a high price in the black market.”
      “About mid-day, however, a furious pelt of rain came down and washed the heart out of the French.”
peltmongers
peltings
pelters
  1. plural of pelter
  2. Examples:
    1. “Please allow us some period of adjustment and development, and then, if we are not cutting the mustard, fine, you can dole out pelters.”
      “He should wear a tin hat for the first Old Firm games as he's going to get pelters for being a very silly boy.”
peltries
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