pellet

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A pellet was accordingly placed in his mouth, and he instantly and with great eagerness swallowed it.

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  1. noun A small, solid or densely packed ball or mass, as of food, wax, or medicine.
  2. noun A bullet or piece of small shot.
  3. noun A stone ball, used as a catapult missile or a primitive cannonball.
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  • A model upon such a scale that the First Galaxy was but a tiny lenticular pellet, although it was still disproportionately large; upon such a scale that the whole vast sphere of space covered by the hundreds of Fenachrone scrolls was compressed into a volume but little larger than a basketball. —  Astounding Stories January, 1935
  • They could both see quite clearly that the flattened surface of the pellet was delicately scrolled by minute holes and swirling lines. —  Artists in Crime - Ngaio Marsh - Alleyn 06: 1938
  • Shoot a plainsman with iron pellet, and his charms are worthless against us. —  Hobb, Robin - The Soldier Son 01 - Shaman's Crossing (v2.0)
  • THEY ARE DANGEROUS Behemoth folded this missive into a tiny pellet, then inserted it in the end of the cigar he had been smoking--the chewed end. —  061 - Devil On The Moon
  • Even in those times when regs had been ignored and a guard tried to nail a Loshak with a stun gun pellet, the target could spring out of the way like a kung fu specialist. —  FSFMay2005
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  1. Middle English pelet, from Old French pelote, from Vulgar Latin *pilotta, diminutive of Latin pila, ball.

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  1. from Middle English pelet, pelot, a ball, bullet (of stone), from Old French pelote, pelotte, a ball, a tennis-ball, French pelotc = Provencal Pelota, pilota = Spanish pelota = Portuguese pellota = Italian Pillotta, a ball, pad, pincushion, from Middle Latin pilota, pelota (after Old French), a little ball, from Latin pila, a ball: see pile.
  2. from pellet, n.
 

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