EGAVE

pellet

About 1.60 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun A small, compressed, hard chunk of matter.
    a pellet of wood, paper, or ore
  2. noun A lead projectile used as ammunition in rifled air guns.
  3. noun Compressed byproduct of digestion regurgitated by owls and many other birds of prey, which serves as a waste disposal mechanism for indigestible parts of food, such as fur and bones.
  4. noun A roundel sable (black circular spot).
  5. noun One of the short conductive tubes in a Pelletron particle accelerator.
  6. verb To form into pellets.
  7. verb To strike with pellets.

Similar words

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Word family

pelletal pelleted pelleting pellets

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