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Pellet, n.¹ Also: pellot, -it, pelat, pallat. [Late ME. pellet (c 1420), pilet, pylet (Prompt. Parv.), pellicle, pelt, thereafter appar. only Sc., OF. pelete, -ette, pellete, -ette (dimin. of pel skin), med. L. (Eng.) peletta (1270).] A pelt; a raw skin of a sheep or other animal, before dressing or tanning. Also attrib. and comb. 1329 Exch. R. I. 201.]
[De quibus nouem sunt pelles, residue pellete a1500 Henr. Fab. 2071 (Ch.).
Thair sail na pedder, for purs nor ȝit for gluifis, … pyke ȝour [sc. the fox's] pellet fra me 1563 Exch. R. XIX. 232.]
[Sexaginta pellium ovinarum vocatarum pellettis 1583 Edinb. Test. XII. 84.
Fyve hundreth pellettis & outskynnis price of the hundreth thairof xij li. 1584 Sempill Sat. P. xlv. 12.
Plucking the pellotis or ever the scheip be slane 1597 Old Dundee I. 101.
Intoxicate with scouring of pellets 1607 Dundee B. Laws 414.
[Any master that] beis fund bying ony plukit pelletis 1610 Brechin Test. III. 45 b.
In the lympotis l pellotis pryce v lib. 1649 Edinb. B. Rec. VIII. 200.
They sall not lyme, grow nor alme skinnis or pellottis … within the said warke 1654 Berw. Nat. C. XXV. 514.
Non within the said traid of skiner traid shal … buy pelats from any man 1708 Lanark B. Rec. 275.
Complaint by the glover trade against John Wood, flesher, for pulling and selling wooll and pallatsattrib. 1582 Grant Chart. 156.
Tua Flanderis werdouris, with xij pellit coweringis 1589 Edinb. Test. XXI. 144 b.
xiij^c of pellet skynnis lyand in the lyme hoiil at vj d. the pece 1612 Brechin Test. II. 229.
Certane pellit skynnes lyand in the lyme pottis 1661 Acts VII. 253/2.
Pellet skines ilk tuo hundred