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Meanings of pellet in English
Non-spherical projectile designed to be fired from an air gun, usually 4.5 mm or 5.5 mm in diameter.
Usage of pellet in English
1
I barely tasted the pellet, and replaced it carefully in the vial.
2
The Renewable Energy comprises wind power, forest-based biofuels unit and pellet mills.
3
She will not, she cannot relinquish her pellet; and she uses it.
4
Jaak grinned and shook the paw, then tossed it a food pellet.
5
The pellet contained ricin, the poisonous extract of the castor bean plant.
6
There was no indication that he threatened anyone with the pellet gun.
7
It was a wartime model of a child's carbon dioxide pellet gun.
8
The only sound came from the food-pellet robot zipping through its routine.
9
He made the bill into a pellet, dropped it on her breast.
10
She opens her gland-lips and pushes out a pellet of moist khepri-spit.
11
Peter Wallace carefully rolled a paper pellet and threw it at Tom.
12
A single bullet hits one of the barrels on the suspended pellet.
13
Each pellet was long, brown, dry, and curved, i.e., the winter type.
14
His heart ain't bigger'n a rat pellet and it's twict es hard.
15
Constantine felt a hard little pellet of anger forming in his throat.
16
Other common non-corn alternatives include cottonseed hulls, rice products, potato products, peanut pellet.
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Pellet across language varieties
Ireland
Common
United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
Less common