pellet

Inherited from Middle English pelote, pelet, from Old French pelote (“small ball”), from Vulgar Latin *pilotta, diminutive of Latin pila (“ball”). Doublet of pelota.

• (UK, US, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈpɛl.ɪt/

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• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈpel.ɪt/
• Rhymes: -ɛlɪt

pellet (plural pellets)

1. A small, compressed, hard chunk of matter.

   a pellet of wood, paper, or ore

2. A lead projectile used as ammunition in rifled air guns.
3. 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. (heraldry) A roundel sable (black circular spot).

   Synonym: ogress

5. One of the short conductive tubes in a Pelletron particle accelerator.

• → Catalan: pèl·let

pellet (third-person singular simple present pellets, present participle pelleting, simple past and past participle pelleted)

1. To form into pellets.

   Synonym: pelletize

2. To strike with pellets.

• “pellet”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

pellet

1. nominative plural of pelle

English pellet, itself from Old French pelote (“small ball”).

pellet m (plural pellets)

1. (metallurgy, petrology) pellet
2. pellet (small, compressed, hard chunk of matter, often wood pellets)

• granulé

• “pellet”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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pellet

1. second-person plural subjunctive I of pellen

pellet

1. third-person singular future active indicative of pellō

• IPA^(key): /ˈpelet/ [ˈpe.let̪]
• Rhymes: -elet
• Syllabification: pe‧llet

pellet m (plural pellets)

1. pellet (projectile)

• “pellet”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

Borrowed from English pellet.

pellet c

1. (usually in the plural) a pellet (small, compressed, hard chunk of matter, often feed or wood pellets)

• brikett

• pellet in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• pellet in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)