pelters

pelters

(ˈpɛltəz)
pl n
informal Scot strong criticism or verbal abuse
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Summary: Srinagar, (Jammu and Kashmir) [India], Sept 2 (ANI): Family members of Noor Mohammad Dar, a truck driver killed by stone pelters in Bijbehara town of Anantnag district, is facing immense difficulties as they have lost the only bread earner of the family.
It's a fair bet that during his long career in the game, Robbie Harrold got a few pelters from the terraces, but he knew that went with the territory and didn't let it stop him devoting more than 50 years of his life to the game he loved.
GARY HOLT has revealed giving their physio pelters over his failing diet has helped put a smile on his sullen Livingston players' faces.
I GOT pelters from West Ham fans a few weeks ago when I questioned whether Marko Arnautovic was the sort of player you'd want alongside you in your dressing room.
Senior Superintendent of Baramulla Police, Imtiyaz Hussain, while confirming the injuries said that some 'stone pelters' clashed with each other in the police custody.
New Delhi: Stone pelters in Jammu and Kashmir are overground workers of terror groups and should be dealt with sternly, Army Chief General Bipin Rawat said Saturday, a day after a 22-year-old jawan was killed by stone pelting in Kashmir.
Paddy Sharrock took plenty of pelters off his team-mates for sitting out the season opener - not for falling off his bike - but down some stairs.
When asked about the January 27 firing in Shopian in which three protesters were killed by army bullets at a time when the People's Democratic Party (PDP) and Bhatar Jantiya Party (BJP) government had withdrawn cases against stone-pelters on the suggestion of Dineshwar Sharma, Rawat said, 'The cases were withdrawn as a goodwill gesture but what goodwill are they (the stone pelters) showing?
In one such video, a youth can be seen tied to the front of an armoured Indian army vehicle as a human shield against stone pelters on the polling day at Gundipora in Beerwah area of Budgam.
Clashes between stone pelters and security forces broke out in Mehjoor Nagar of Srinagar, Shopian town, Palhalan town in Baramulla district and in Tral in Pulwama.
FAROOQ Ahmad Dar, who was tied to the bonnet of an Indian Army jeep and used as a human shield from stone pelters in the Valley has gone to the State Human Rights Commission ( SHRC) against the reward given to Major Gogoi by the Army.
Step forward Cardinal Keith O'Brien who is getting pelters for talking about re-Christianising Scotland.