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English

Pronunciation


Noun

  1. Usually a small, compressed, symmetrical and hard chunk of matter. Ex: Wood pellet, ore pellet, etc.
  2. A lead projectile used as ammunition in rifled air guns.
  3. Compressed byproduct of digestion regurgitated by owls. Serves as a waste disposal mechanism for that species, as it can't excrete feces.


Translations

Verb

  1. To form into pellets
  2. To strike with pellets


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Finnish

Noun

pellet


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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Pellet \Pel"let\ (p[e^]l"l[e^]t), n. [F. pelote, LL. pelota,
pilota, fr. L. pila a ball. Cf. Platoon.]
1. A little ball; as, a pellet of wax on paper.
[1913 Webster]

2. A bullet; a ball for firearms. [Obs.] --Bacon.
[1913 Webster]

As swift as a pellet out of a gun. --Chaucer.
[1913 Webster]

Pellet gun a gun that fires small pellets, less than 3 mm
diameter, usually made of metal.

Pellet molding (Arch.), a narrow band ornamented with
smalt, flat disks.
[1913 Webster +PJC]
GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Pellet \Pel"let\, v. t.
To form into small balls; to pelletize. [Obs.] --Shak.
[1913 Webster] Pelletise
WordNet pellet
n 1: a small sphere
2: a solid missile discharged from a firearm; "the shot buzzed
past his ear" [syn: shot]
Moby Dictionary
ball , balloon , bar shot , bead , bird shot , bladder , blob , boll ,
bolus , brickbat , bubble , buckshot , bulb , bulbil , bulblet , bullet ,
cannon shot , cannonball , case shot , crossbar shot , duck shot ,
dumdum bullet , egg , ellipsoid , expanding bullet , geoid , globe ,
globelet , globoid , globule , glomerulus , gob , gobbet , grape ,
grapeshot , knob , knot , langrel shot , lapidate , manstopping bullet ,
marble , oblate spheroid , orb , orbit , orblet , pea , pearl , pebble ,
pelt , pill , prolate spheroid , rifle ball , rondure , round shot ,
shell , shot , shrapnel , slug , sphere , spheroid , spherule ,
split shot , stone


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