pellet

noun

• a small, rounded, compressed mass of a substance:fish food pellets
• a piece of small shot or other lightweight bullet: he had also been struck by a number of shotgun pellets
• a small mass of bones and feathers regurgitated by a bird of prey: owl pellets
• a small round piece of animal faeces, especially from a rabbit or rodent.

verb (pellets, pelleting, pelleted)

• 1form (a substance) into pellets: the business made its name pelleting sugar beet seed (as adjective pelleted)pelleted forms of fertilizer

• 2hit with or as if with pellets:the last drops of rain were pelleting the windshield