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pellet

A black roundle is given the various names of pellet, ogress and gunstone, a roundle being any circular charge of color or metal. Black roundles represent cannon balls and bullets and may indicate that the first bearer was an artilleryman, or that he braved the dangers these things in battle. It may have been intended to appear globular on the shield, rather than flat like most other roundles, so an artist may shade it accordingly. Pellettee describes a shield strewn with pellets.

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