'Pellet' definitions:
Definition of 'pellet'
(from WordNet)
noun
A small sphere
noun
A solid missile discharged from a firearm; "the shot buzzed past his ear" [syn: shot, pellet]
Definition of 'Pellet'
From: GCIDE
- Pellet \Pel"let\ (p[e^]l"l[e^]t), n. [F. pelote, LL. pelota, pilota, fr. L. pila a ball. Cf. Platoon.]
- 1. A little ball; as, a pellet of wax on paper. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A bullet; a ball for firearms. [Obs.] --Bacon. [1913 Webster]
- As swift as a pellet out of a gun. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster +PJC]
Definition of 'Pellet'
From: GCIDE
- Pellet \Pel"let\, v. t. To form into small balls; to pelletize. [Obs.] --Shak. [1913 Webster] Pelletise
Synonyms of 'pellet'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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