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/bˈʊlət/ Listen

noun

Bullet n.

A small ball.

A missile, usually of lead, and round or elongated in form, to be discharged from a rifle, musket, pistol, or other small firearm.

A cannon ball. (Obs.) "A ship before Greenwich... shot off her ordnance, one piece being charged with a bullet of stone."

The fetlock of a horse.

Bullet tree. See Bully tree.

Bullet wood, the wood of the bullet tree.

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Etymology of 'Bullet'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Bullet" Quotes from Famous Books

... these balls he had gone straight to the field, and three years had given him an enviable reputation for sang-froid and determined bravery. He looked every inch the soldier as he walked along the trail, his cloak thrown back and his sword tucked under his arm. The doctor, who carried a Modoc bullet in some inaccessible part of his scarred body, growled good-naturedly at the need of walking, and the men, enveloped in their army-blue overcoats, marched easily by fours. Reaching the station, the lieutenant called the agent aside, and with him inspected, on a siding, a long platform car ...

— The Denver Express - From "Belgravia" for January, 1884 • A. A. Hayes

... was like Jim Courtot's play, too, to clear out and leave his agents to deal with the man he hated. All in the world that Courtot ever wanted was to win; the means were nothing. If his enemy went down by another man's bullet than his own, so much the better for Jim Courtot, who had always enough to answer for ...

— The Desert Valley • Jackson Gregory

... as well live comfortably as to die unseasonably here. Another little suggestion, Mr. Saunders. Please tell Lord Deppingham that if he persists in snooping about the ravines in search of rubies, he'll get an unmanageable bullet in the back of his head some day soon. He's being watched all the time. The natives resent his actions, foolish as they may seem to us. This is not child's play. He has no right to a single ruby, even if he should see one and know what it was. Just ...

— The Man From Brodney's • George Barr McCutcheon

... rockets blasting evenly, the giant ship lifted itself free of the ground. Then, gaining speed, it began rocketing away from the Earth. Like a giant shining bullet, the great spaceship blasted through the dark void of space, her nose pointed to the distant misty planet ...

— On the Trail of the Space Pirates • Carey Rockwell

... hypocrite; if in his heart he allows it he cannot be a saint of God. If there be one evil way, though there have been many reformations, the man is an ungodly man. One way of sin is exception enough against any man's salvation. A small shot will kill a man as well as a large bullet, a small leak let alone will sink a ship, and a small, and especially a secret and spiritual sin, will cost ...

— Samuel Rutherford - and some of his correspondents • Alexander Whyte

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