Paltry; petty: “This land . . . /Is now leas'd out . . . /Like to a tenement or pelting farm” (Shakespeare).
[Perhaps from dialectal pelt, trash.]
pelting
Dictionary:
pelt·ing (pĕl'tĭng)  |
| WordNet: pelting |
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The noun has one meaning:
Meaning #1:
anything happening rapidly or in quick successive
Synonym: rain
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