pellet.
A small, compressed, hard chunk of matter.
Meaning & usage
A small, compressed, hard chunk of matter.
a pellet of wood, paper, or ore
A lead projectile used as ammunition in rifled air guns.
Compressed byproduct of digestion regurgitated by owls and many other birds of prey, which serves as a waste disposal mechanism for indigestible parts of food, such as fur and bones.
A roundel sable (black circular spot).
One of the short conductive tubes in a Pelletron particle accelerator.
Where this word comes from
Inherited from Middle English pelote, pelet, from Old French pelote (“small ball”), from Vulgar Latin *pilotta, diminutive of Latin pila (“ball”). Doublet of pelota.
To form into pellets.
To strike with pellets.
Where this word comes from
Inherited from Middle English pelote, pelet, from Old French pelote (“small ball”), from Vulgar Latin *pilotta, diminutive of Latin pila (“ball”). Doublet of pelota.
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