peleton means A small pellet or ball. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.
Etymology
From the French peloton (“little ball”); compare peloton.
noun
- A small pellet or ball.“[…] who continu'd still to pelter him with Heaps and Clouds of those Historical Balls or Librarian Bullets, or Pelotes or Peletons; […]”