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pellet definition

pel·let (pel′it)

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

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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