Pellet

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  • noun. A small, solid or densely packed ball or mass, as of food, wax, or medicine.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. A bullet or piece of small shot.
  • noun. A stone ball, used as a catapult missile or a primitive cannonball.
  • transitive verb. To make or form into pellets.
  • transitive verb. To strike with pellets.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The indigestible part of the food of hawks and owls, consisting of bones, hair, feathers, etc., which is cast up or regurgitated in the shape of elongated balls.
  • To form into pellets or little balls.
  • noun. A little ball, as of wax, dough, paper, lead (a shot), etc.: as, homeopathic pellets.
  • noun. A stone ball formerly used as a missile, particularly from a sling; also, a cannon-ball; a bullet.
  • noun. In heraldry, a roundel sable: same as ogress.
  • noun. In numismatics, a small pellet-shaped boss. T. Erans.
  • noun. In decorative art, a small rounded projection, usually one of many. Compare purl.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A little ball.
  • noun. A bullet; a ball for firearms.
  • noun. a gun that fires small pellets, less than 3 mm diameter, usually made of metal.
  • noun. a narrow band ornamented with smalt, flat disks.
  • transitive verb. To form into small balls; to pelletize.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. Usually a small, compressed, symmetrical and hard chunk of matter. Ex: Wood pellet, ore pellet, etc.
  • noun. A lead projectile used as ammunition in rifled air guns.
  • noun. Compressed byproduct of digestion regurgitated by owls. Serves as a waste disposal mechanism for indigestible parts of food, such as fur and bones.
  • verb. To form into pellets
  • verb. To strike with pellets
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a solid missile discharged from a firearm
  • noun. a small sphere
  • Word Usage
    "Deformity of the pellet is a good thing to broaden wound channel and transfer energy to the squirrel but even that is a non-issue at this speed."
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    ball  globe  orb  
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    helot  pelot  zealot  
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    ball  balloon  bar shot  bead  bird shot  
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