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A small, dense lump pretending it's not a bullet, a vitamin, or owl vomit.
means A small, compact mass of material pressed or rolled into a roughly round or cylindrical shape.
from From French 'pelote' meaning a small ball, which shrank down from Latin 'pila,' meaning ball — the same root that gives us 'pill.' So a pellet is etymologically just a tiny pill, and a pill is just a small ball someone decided to swallow.
- owl pellets
- Regurgitated fur and bones, not droppings
- air guns
- Pellets are shaped, BBs are just round balls
- wood pellets
- Compressed sawdust burns hotter than raw logs
- rabbit food
- Pellets pack a day's nutrients into one bite