pellet

noun

• a small, rounded, compressed mass of a substance:fish food pellets
• a piece of small shot or other lightweight bullet.
• Ornithology a small mass of bones and feathers regurgitated by a bird of prey or other bird.
• a small round piece of animal feces, especially from a rabbit or rodent.

verb (pellets, pelleting, pelleted)

• 1form or shape (a substance, especially animal food) into pellets.

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