Pel"let (?), n. [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.
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Pel"let, v..
To form into small balls.
[Obs.]
Shak.
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