boule vs pellet

boule

verb
  • To shape (a piece of dough) into a ball. 

noun
  • A single-crystal ingot produced by synthetic means. 

  • A round loaf of bread. 

  • A round piece of dough. 

  • A through-sawn log with the slices restacked in the order and orientation they originally had in the log, usually with waney edges. 

  • A council of citizens in Ancient Greece 

  • One of the bowls used in the French game of boules. 

pellet

verb
  • To form into pellets. 

  • To strike with pellets. 

noun
  • One of the short conductive tubes in a Pelletron particle accelerator. 

  • A small, compressed, hard chunk of matter. 

  • A lead projectile used as ammunition in rifled air guns. 

  • Compressed byproduct of digestion regurgitated by owls and many other birds of prey, which serves as a waste disposal mechanism for indigestible parts of food, such as fur and bones. 

  • A roundel sable (black circular spot). 

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