Pellet

Etymology
From, from , diminutive of. .

Noun

 * 1) A small, compressed, hard chunk of matter.
 * a pellet of wood, paper, or ore
 * 1) A lead projectile used as ammunition in rifled air guns.
 * 2) Compressed byproduct of digestion regurgitated by owls. Serves as a waste disposal mechanism for indigestible parts of food, such as fur and bones.
 * 3)  A roundel sable (black circular spot; also called ogress).
 * 4) One of the short conductive tubes in a Pelletron particle accelerator.

Translations

 * Catalan:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Hindi:
 * Maori: hāmoamoa


 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Slovak: granula
 * Tagalog: kamil
 * Ukrainian: ока́ток


 * Catalan: perdigó
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Hindi:


 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: pelota de chumbo, chumbinho
 * Scottish Gaelic: peilear
 * Tagalog: kamil
 * Yup'ik: kal'ciissaaq


 * Dutch: uilebal,
 * Finnish:
 * French:


 * German:
 * Icelandic: bollur
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:

Verb

 * 1) To form into pellets.
 * 2) To strike with pellets.
 * 1) To strike with pellets.

Noun

 * 1)  projectile