BULLET

n.

4 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

A small ball.

2.
n.

A missile, usually of lead, and round or elongated in form, to be discharged from a rifle, musket, pistol, or other small firearm.

3.
n.

A cannon ball. [Obs.] A ship before Greenwich . . . shot off her ordnance, one piece being charged with a bullet of stone. Stow.

4.
n.

The fetlock of a horse.