pellety

comparative more pellety · superlative most pellety · alternative pelletty

1. Having a consistency like pellets.
2. Full of pellets.

   Round beaks are at / work in the pellety nest, / working. Owl is an eye / in the barn.

   1963, George MacBeth, Owl

3. not comparablegovernmentSemé (strewn) with pellets (roundels sable).

   A dragon's head erased Or pellety eared and langued Gules.

   1998, Joan Corder, John Blatchly, A Dictionary of Suffolk Crests: Heraldic Crests of Suffolk Families, Boydell & Brewer, →ISBN, page 319

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   : -gules, a hind trippant or between three pheons or, within a bordure engrailed argent pellety. The printed version of Glover , which is frequently incorrect and is, incidentally, responsible for the use of many false[…]

   1933, James Thomas Herbert Baily, The Connoisseur