Definitions for pellets

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pellets pel·let

Spelling: [pel-it]

IPA: /ˈpɛl ɪt/

Pellets is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 111 anagrams from letters in pellets (eellpst).

Definitions for pellets

noun

1. a small, rounded or spherical body, as of food or medicine.
2. a small wad or ball of wax, paper, etc., for throwing, shooting, or the like.
3. one of a charge of small shot, as for a shotgun.
4. a bullet.
5. a ball, usually of stone, formerly used as a missile.
6. Also called cast. Ornithology. a small, roundish mass of matter regurgitated by certain predatory birds, consisting of the indigestible remains, as the fur, feathers, and bones, of the prey.
7. (in Romanesque architecture) a hemispherical or disklike carved ornament.
8. Heraldry. ogress2 .

verb (used with object)

1. to form into pellets; pelletize.
2. to hit with pellets.

Origin of pellets

1325-75; Middle English pelet Middle French pelote Vulgar Latin *pilotta, diminutive of Latin pila ball. See pill¹, -et

Examples for pellets

The maiden took the pellet into her mouth again and said: “Now all is well!”

Sleet is rain mixed with snow; there are pellet like snowflakes that fall between warming and cooling fronts.

Heber, who was struck by a pellet round to his head, was not seriously injured.

With the pellet gun pointed at him the manager opened the safe.

The pellet began to glow fiercely, throwing off an intense heat.

I barely tasted the pellet, and replaced it carefully in the vial.

He found a manager who was buying a package of Goldfish crackers and pulled the pellet gun on him.

Gregory nodded bleakly, sobering at once, and swallowed the pellet.

He held the pellet above the mouth of the bottle, but his eyes were on his pupils.

That is, the motion looked like a toss, but the pellet traveled like a bullet.