1. a small round ball or piece of something
2. a small compressed piece of animal food
3. a small piece of metal shot from an air gun

1. to hit or attack with pellets

Examples

• The owl regurgitated a pellet containing mouse bones.
• She fed the rabbit pellets from the pet store.
• The air rifle shoots small metal pellets.
• Hail pellets bounced off the car windshield.
• The protesters were pelted with ice pellets.
• Wood pellets are used as fuel for heating.
• The medicine comes in small white pellets.