Catapelting

• catapulte: (French) a type of siege engine
  • "Baliste (Tite-Live) et catapulte (Vitruve) à côté de bélier.". ("Ballista (Livy) and catapult (Vitruvius) are similar to a battering ram").
    • Lazare Sainéan, La Langue de Rabelais, Vol.1, p. 91 (Paris 1922)

• catapulting: the act of throwing something by use of a catapult
  • Wikipedia

• pelting: striking or assailing repeatedly with or as if with blows or missiles; bombarding
  • Dictionary

• pelt: the human skin; catapelting → cut-a-pelt-ing, cutting a human skin; cf. Hoodie and Camibalistics

• catapelting: after caterwauling? (cata-pelting at cater-walls) Lould noisy sound of male cats fighting; compared to bad singing with reference to the previous poet Verlaine? or arguing / whining over a topic with refrence to the battle / treaty of Verdun?