A ball of lead or other metal, used in firearms of small calibre; now often conical. Formerly also collective (cf. ball, n.1 5b).

The metal regarded as fashioned into some object, e.g. †a seal, †the plummet of a plumb-line, †a pipe or conduit, a leaden coffin, a bullet, the…

A piece of lead or other metal for firing from a gun; a roughly-formed bullet.

slang. oaken towel, also simply towel, a stick, cudgel (cf. towel, v. 2); lead towel, a bullet.

U.S. slang. A bullet. Now historical.