pellety
adjEtymology From pellet + -y.
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
Government, Heraldry, Hobbies, Lifestyle, Monarchy, Nobility, Politics Semé (strewn) with pellets (roundels sable).
- : -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:
- 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: