Pellet

Noun

 * 1) Usually a small, compressed, symmetrical and hard chunk of matter.  Ex: Wood pellet, ore pellet, etc.
 * 2) A lead projectile used as ammunition in rifled air guns.
 * 3) Compressed byproduct of digestion regurgitated by owls.  Serves as a waste disposal mechanism for that species, as it can't excrete feces.

Verb

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

Thesaurus
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

Noun

 * Dutch: balletje, propje
 * Finnish:


 * French:
 * Portuguese: pelota, bola


 * Dutch: kogeltje, hagelkorrel
 * Finnish:


 * Portuguese: pelota de chumbo, chumbinho (projétil)
 * Scottish Gaelic:


 * Dutch: uilebal
 * Finnish:


 * French:
 * Spanish: egagrópila

Noun
pellet