Pellet

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A small, solid or densely packed ball or mass, as of food, wax, or medicine.
  • n. A bullet or piece of small shot.
  • n. A stone ball, used as a catapult missile or a primitive cannonball.
  • v. To make or form into pellets.
  • v. To strike with pellets.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. Usually a small, compressed, symmetrical and hard chunk of matter. Ex: Wood pellet, ore pellet, etc.
  • n. A lead projectile used as ammunition in rifled air guns.
  • n. Compressed byproduct of digestion regurgitated by owls. Serves as a waste disposal mechanism for indigestible parts of food, such as fur and bones.
  • v. To form into pellets
  • v. To strike with pellets
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A little ball.
  • n. A bullet; a ball for firearms.
  • v. To form into small balls; to pelletize.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A little ball, as of wax, dough, paper, lead (a shot), etc.: as, homeopathic pellets.
  • n. A stone ball formerly used as a missile, particularly from a sling; also, a cannon-ball; a bullet.
  • n. In heraldry, a roundel sable: same as ogress.
  • n. In numismatics, a small pellet-shaped boss. T. Erans.
  • n. In decorative art, a small rounded projection, usually one of many. Compare purl.
  • To form into pellets or little balls.
  • n. 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.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a solid missile discharged from a firearm
  • n. a small sphere
  • Verb Form
    pelleted    pelleting    pellets   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    ball    orb    globe   
    Cross Reference
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    bullet    pelletize    pebble    hailstone   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    helot    pelot    zealot   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    projectile    slug    canister    bullet    cartridge    grenade    propellant    droplet    particle    flake