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Answer for the clue "Bit of ammo ", 6 letters:
pellet

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A pellet , in ornithology , is the mass of undigested parts of a bird's food that some bird species occasionally regurgitate . The contents of a bird's pellet depend on its diet, but can include the exoskeletons of insects, indigestible plant matter, bones, ...

Usage examples of pellet.

During the sweating stage the patient should be left alone, but as soon as the perspiration ceases, from two to four of the Purgative Pellets should be administered, as a gentle cathartic.

The platform was scarred with deep, charcoal-blistered trenches made by the reflected beams of energy weapons and pocked with thousands of splintered gouges and impact holes from ricocheting slugs and rifle pellets, and blasphemies and cabbalistic signs had been carved into the polished ancient planks, but the huge black disc of the shrine itself, being only partly of this world, was inviolate.

But his eyes were on the innocent-appearing walking stick, actually a cosher, a leather tube filled with tiny pellets.

The egg-shaped shell was a miniature laser array with a deuterium pellet at the heart of it.

Cut off the light that the lasers were pouring into the deuterium fuel pellets and the reactor would shut down.

He gave no grip to Colney, who groaned at cheap Donnish sarcasm, and let him go, after dealing him a hard pellet or two in a cracker-covering.

He threw the gisarme to one side, pulled the pellet pistol from his waistband and threw that away too.

By that time, she realized, the impactor would be launched and the last pusher pellets en route to it.

Something tickled his mind: the recollection of the Mek who had fired the pellet gun.

I have a paintball gun and a pellet gun for the rabbit in the shooting gallery.

Having grown up with the toylike BB and pellet guns designed primarily for the youth market, I tended to regard air-powered arms as simply plinkers and playthings, not as serious tools.

Mabry extended his credentials to the waiting cop, a man in full armor under his coveralls, with a stunstick at his belt and a pellet gun slung across his shoulder.

Lipo looked like engorged Smarties, rounder and a bit softer, essentially yet another mutation of sugar pellets.

That was the big pay-off, the triadic bonus, which came as surely as the energy bounty obtained by adding that last pellet of fissionable material.

I should use one of your tryp pellets on you and leave you here to explain to Quinn.