pellet Definition
pel·let (pel′it)
noun
- a little ball or rounded mass, as of clay, paper, medicine, compressed food for animals, etc.
- a crude projectile of stone, etc., as used in a catapult or early cannon
- a bullet or an imitation bullet
- 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
- to make pellets of
- to shoot or hit with pellets
pellet Synonyms
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 μl 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.

