pellet

A small, solid or densely packed ball or mass, as of food, wax, or medicine.

A bullet or piece of small shot.

A stone ball, used as a catapult missile or a primitive cannonball.

To make or form into pellets.

To strike with pellets.

The indigestible part of the food of hawks and owls, consisting of bones, hair, feathers, etc., which is cast up or regurgitated in the shape of elongated balls.

To form into pellets or little balls.

A little ball, as of wax, dough, paper, lead (a shot), etc.: as, homeopathic pellets.

A stone ball formerly used as a missile, particularly from a sling; also, a cannon-ball; a bullet.