pellet

noun

1. a little ball or rounded mass, as of clay, paper, medicine, compressed food for animals, etc.
2. 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

transitive verb

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