chaplet vs pellet

chaplet

noun
  • A garland or circlet for the head. 

  • A set of repetitive prayers, other than the Rosary, typically prayed with a string of beads. 

  • The Chaplet of Divine Mercy, the most well-known chaplet in the Catholic Church. 

  • A metal support for a cylindrical pipe. 

  • A molding in the form of a string of beads; a bead molding. 

  • A small chapel or shrine. 

  • A bent piece of sheet iron, or a pin with thin plates on its ends, for holding a core in place in the mould. 

  • A headdress in the form of a wreath made of leaves, flowers or twigs woven into a ring. 

pellet

noun
  • A roundel sable (black circular spot). 

  • 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. 

verb
  • To form into pellets. 

  • To strike with pellets. 

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