Definition:
n. bullet or piece of small shot
Example:
The Socialist leader pledged to do all in his power to stamp out unrest two straight days of disturbances in which after 17 police were injured, some by shotgun pellets.
Sentence in Classic:
Even Napoleon, who was directing operations from the rear, had the tip of his tail chipped by a pellet.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
ContextTHE cars came scudding in towards Dublin, running evenly like pellets in the groove of the Naas Road.
The animals could not face the terrible explosions and the stinging pellets, and in spite of the efforts of Napoleon and Boxer to rally them, they were soon driven back.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
ContextBut butterflies she never saw, mice were only black pellets in kitchen drawers; moths she bundled in her hands and put out of the window.
Between the Acts (1941) By Virginia Woolf
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