According to Guinness World Records, the largest collection of coffee pots belongs to Robert Dahl (Germany) and consists of 27,390 coffee pots as of 2 November 2012, in Rövershagen, Germany.
PELLET
shot, pellet
(noun) a solid missile discharged from a firearm; “the shot buzzed past his ear”
pellet
(noun) a small sphere
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
pellet (plural pellets)
A small, compressed, hard chunk of matter.
A lead projectile used as ammunition in rifled air guns.
Compressed byproduct of digestion regurgitated by owls. Serves as a waste disposal mechanism for indigestible parts of food, such as fur and bones.
(heraldiccharge) A roundel sable (black circular spot; also called ogress).
One of the short conductive tubes in a Pelletron particle accelerator.
Verb
pellet (third-person singular simple present pellets, present participle pelleting, simple past and past participle pelleted)
To form into pellets.
Synonym: pelletize
To strike with pellets.
Source: Wiktionary
Pel"let, n. Etym: [F. pelote, LL. pelota, pilota, fr. L. pila a ball. Cf. Platoon.]
1. A little ball; as, a pellet of wax .
2. A bullet; a ball for firearms. [Obs.] Bacon. As swift as a pellet out of a gun. Chaucer. Pellet molding (Arch.), a narrow band ornamented with smalt, flat disks.
Pel"let, v.
Definition: To form into small balls. [Obs.] Shak.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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