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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Pellet \Pel"let\, noun [F. pelote, LL. pelota, pilota, fr. L. pila a ball. Cf. {Platoon}.]
1. A little ball; as, a pellet of wax ? paper.
2. A bullet; a ball for firearms. [Obs.] --Bacon.
As swift as a pellet out of a gun. --Chaucer.
{Pellet molding} (Arch.), a narrow band ornamented with smalt, flat disks.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Pellet \Pel"let\, v.?. To form into small balls. [Obs.] --Shak.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
pellet
noun
1: a small sphere
2: a solid missile discharged from a firearm; "the shot buzzed past his ear" [syn: {shot}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
63 Moby Thesaurus words for "pellet": ball, balloon, bar shot, bead, bird shot, bladder, blob, boll, bolus, brickbat, bubble, buckshot, bulb, bulbil, bulblet, bullet, cannon shot, cannonball, case shot, crossbar shot, duck shot, dumdum bullet, egg, ellipsoid, expanding bullet, geoid, globe, globelet, globoid, globule, glomerulus, gob, gobbet, grape, grapeshot, knob, knot, langrel shot, lapidate, manstopping bullet, marble, oblate spheroid, orb, orbit, orblet, pea, pearl, pebble, pelt, pill, prolate spheroid, rifle ball, rondure, round shot, shell, shot, shrapnel, slug, sphere, spheroid, spherule, split shot, stone
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