Meaning of PELLET
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- [n] a solid missile discharged from a firearm; "the shot buzzed past his ear"
- [n] a small sphere
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| | See Also: | | ball, ball, BB, BB shot, bird shot, buckshot, canister, canister shot, case shot, duck shot, globe, grapeshot, missile, musket ball, orb, projectile | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\Pel"let\, n. [F. pelote, LL. pelota, pilota, fr. L. pila
a ball. Cf. {Platoon}.]
1. A little ball; as, a pellet of wax ? paper.
2. A bullet; a ball for firearms. [Obs.] --Bacon.
As swift as a pellet out of a gun. --Chaucer.
{Pellet molding} (Arch.), a narrow band ornamented with
smalt, flat disks.
\Pel"let\, v.?.
To form into small balls. [Obs.] --Shak.
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| | Related Terms: | | ball, balloon, bar shot, bead, bird shot, bladder, blob, boll, bolus, brickbat, bubble, buckshot, bulb, bulbil, bulblet, bullet, cannon shot, cannonball, case shot, crossbar shot, duck shot, dumdum bullet, egg, ellipsoid, expanding bullet, geoid, globe, globelet, globoid, globule, glomerulus, gob, gobbet, grape, grapeshot, knob, knot, langrel shot, lapidate, manstopping bullet, marble, oblate spheroid, orb, orbit, orblet, pea, pearl, pebble, pelt, pill, prolate spheroid, rifle ball, rondure, round shot, shell, shot, shrapnel, slug, sphere, spheroid, spherule, split shot, stone |
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