Definition of "pellet" [pel•let]

• A small, solid or densely packed ball or mass, as of food, wax, or medicine. (noun)
• A bullet or piece of small shot. (noun)
• A stone ball, used as a catapult missile or a primitive cannonball. (noun)
• To make or form into pellets. (verb-transitive)
• To strike with pellets. (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Deformity of the pellet is a good thing to broaden wound channel and transfer energy to the squirrel but even that is a non-issue at this speed."
• "The speed of a pellet is too low to differentiate between these."
• "Biting down on a copper plated pellet is exactly why I've adopted the "aim high" philosophy."