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pellet Definition

pel·let (pelit)

noun

  1. a little ball or rounded mass, as of clay, paper, medicine, compressed food for animals, etc.
    1. a crude projectile of stone, etc., as used in a catapult or early cannon
    2. a bullet or an imitation bullet
    3. any of various pieces of small, usually lead, shot

Etymology: ME pelote < OFr < VL *pilotta, dim. of L pila, a ball, orig., knot of hair: see pile

transitive verb

  1. to make pellets of
  2. to shoot or hit with pellets

pellet Synonyms

pellet

n.

pill, globule, bullet, bead, pebble, grain, orblet, spherule; see also rock 2, stone.

pellet Usage Examples

Object

manure: I think the addition of pelleted chicken manure has helped bring the sweetcorn on.

Preposition: on

hook: Terry fished a short pole with soft pellet on the hook.

Preposition: at

GMT: There was a moderate shower of snow pellets at 18 GMT that almost covered the ground.

Adjective modifier

  • 6mm: Best feed 4mm - 6mm halibut pellets, chopped meat or hemp.
  • 3mm: My old bait dropper is loaded with hemp and 3mm pellet, gently swung down to the bottom.
  • fecal: Fecal pellets, disturbed by human movement, are pushed into the air.
  • caecal: The best probiotic is caecal pellets from a healthy rabbit, which have a mucus coating to withstand stomach acid.
  • shotgun: Almost a year ago, in an exchange of correspondence, a friend asked my opinion of how shotgun pellets kill.
  • 4mm: Loose fed casters and 4mm pellet and double caster hookbait was the killer method.

Converse of object

  • resuspend: Discard the excess supernatant and resuspend the pellet in the 100 &mu;l from the pipette.
  • dissect: The Owl group dissected barn owl pellets, which revealed the number of field voles taken by barn owls.

Modifies a noun

  • stove: A pellet stove ( without a back boiler ) in the region of £ 1500.
  • paste: Laying on about two rod lengths out with trout pellet paste is also extremely successful with the tench.
  • boiler: With this kind of influence on us how will the pellet boiler get a fair look-in?

Noun used with modifier

  • carp: Daniel float fished luncheon meat over small carp pellets.
  • slug: Re: pet friendly slug pellets - do they exist?
  • halibut: Today, in the colored water, I will be using halibut pellets on the hook.
  • hooker: Only ever bought one tub of hooker pellets and they were green.
  • airgun: A NHW member has reported that her pedigree cat had to receive veterinary treatment after being been shot with an airgun pellet.
  • owl: Take the " owl pellet " lesson, for example.

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