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Pellet   /pˈɛlət/   Listen
noun
Pellet  n.  
1.
A little ball; as, a pellet of wax on paper.
2.
A bullet; a ball for firearms. (Obs.) "As swift as a pellet out of a gun."
Pellet gun a gun that fires small pellets, less than 3 mm diameter, usually made of metal.
Pellet molding (Arch.), a narrow band ornamented with smalt, flat disks.


verb
Pellet  v. t.  To form into small balls; to pelletize. (Obs.)





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"Pellet" Quotes from Famous Books



... But one pellet turned out to be not enough. It required the bursting of three pellets before the animal finally trembled, came to a halt, and with eyes glazed, fell ...
— Dead Man's Planet • William Morrison
... my arm was paining me. In my own room I eagerly examined the wound. It was but slight. A pellet or two had grazed my arm and ploughed their way along the thickness of the skin, but none had entered deeply. So I wrapped my arm in a little lint and some old linen, and went ...
— Bog-Myrtle and Peat - Tales Chiefly Of Galloway Gathered From The Years 1889 To 1895 • S.R. Crockett
... more. Wherein we saw did stand a Portingall or twaine; Who held a white flag in his hand, and waued vs amaine. Our flesh as fraile now shakes, whereby we gan retire, And he at vs a shot then makes, a Negro giuing fire. A piece discharged thus, the hissing pellet lights, I thinke within a yard of vs, but none of vs it hits. We wisht then we had there a good ship, eke or twaine, But helpelesse now, we rowe a shore to know th'end of our paine. The neerer that we went to them vnto the shore, To yeld our selues, as first we ment they still ...
— The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, - and Discoveries of The English Nation, v5 - Central and Southern Europe • Richard Hakluyt
... with a beast that got drunk every night and twice a day on Sunday. It was worse even than that. One night—we were sitting out on the veranda—her scarf slipped, and I saw a scar on her arm, near her shoulder." Hardy stopped abruptly and began to roll a little pellet of bread between his thumb and his forefinger; then his tense expression faded and he ...
— The Best Short Stories of 1915 - And the Yearbook of the American Short Story • Various
... to the top of the hedge to go over, and for a moment came full in view, and quite fifty yards away. I fired a snap shot as a forlorn hope, and lost sight of him; but the next instant I heard Orion call, 'He's down!' One single chance pellet had dropped the cock—he fell on the other side just ...
— The Amateur Poacher • Richard Jefferies


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