v. [f. BE- 1 + PELT v.] trans. To pelt soundly; to assail with missiles.
1622. Mabbe, trans. Aleman’s Guzman d’Alf., I. 94. They shrewdly be-pelted their Pates.
1630. J. Taylor (Water P.), Wks., II. 145. [They] Bepelted me with Lome, with Stones, and Laths.
1832. Fraser’s Mag., V. 756. The Duke … was hissed and bepelted.
1852. Hawthorne, Wonder-Bk. (1879), 117. The children … bepelted him with snowballs.
