Pellet

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

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


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              As swift as a pellet out of a gun.    --Chaucer.
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     {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.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Pellet \Pel"let\, v. t.
     To form into small balls; to pelletize. [Obs.] --Shak.
     [1913 Webster] Pelletise

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  pellet
       n 1: a small sphere
       2: a solid missile discharged from a firearm; "the shot buzzed
          past his ear" [syn: {shot}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  63 Moby Thesaurus words for "pellet":
     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