PELLET

n. v.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
n.

A little ball; as, a pellet of wax .

2.
n.

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.

3.
v.

To form into small balls. [Obs.] Shak.

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