pellet

/หˆpษ›lษชt/

IPA: /P EH1 L AH0 T/

noun
  1. 1

    A small, compressed, hard chunk of matter.

    โ€œa pellet of wood, paper, or oreโ€

  2. 2

    A lead projectile used as ammunition in rifled air guns.

  3. 3

    Compressed byproduct of digestion regurgitated by owls. Serves as a waste disposal mechanism for indigestible parts of food, such as fur and bones.

  4. 4

    A roundel sable (black circular spot; also called ogress).

  5. 5

    One of the short conductive tubes in a Pelletron particle accelerator.

verb
  1. 1

    To form into pellets.

  2. 2

    To strike with pellets.

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Source: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pellet