Definitions for Pellet

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Pellet pel·let

Spelling: [pel-it]

IPA: /ˈpɛl ɪt/

Pellet is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 46 anagrams from letters in Pellet (eellpt).

Definitions for Pellet

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 Pellet

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

Examples for Pellet

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.