[f. BE- 1 + PEPPER v.] trans. To pelt with shot, sand, etc.; or with blows thickly falling.
1613. Rowlands, Four Knaves (1843), 52. He is be-peper’d over head and eares.
1760. Sterne, Tr. Shandy (1802), VIII. v. 112. Grinding the faces of the impotent,—bepeppering their noses.
