"peleton" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "fr",
        "3": "peloton",
        "4": "",
        "5": "little ball"
      },
      "expansion": "French peloton (“little ball”)",
      "name": "uder"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From the French peloton (“little ball”); compare peloton.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "peletons",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "peleton (plural peletons)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1716, Miles Davies, “Of Medals, and Writings and Writers thereupon.”, in Athenæ Britannicæ: or, A critical history of the Oxford and Cambrige writers and writings, page 93",
          "text": "[…] who continu'd still to pelter him with Heaps and Clouds of those Historical Balls or Librarian Bullets, or Pelotes or Peletons; […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A small pellet or ball."
      ],
      "id": "en-peleton-en-noun-pma3X5SP",
      "links": [
        [
          "pellet",
          "pellet"
        ],
        [
          "ball",
          "ball"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete, rare) A small pellet or ball."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "obsolete",
        "rare"
      ]
    },
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "peloton"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "25 75",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "15 85",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English undefined derivations",
          "parents": [
            "Undefined derivations",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2009 January 18, Christopher Clarey, “Armstrong Returns to Riding With a Purpose”, in New York Times",
          "text": "It is a tribute to the past of bicycle racing and is full of antique equipment, faded photographs and videos of sprints and peletons past.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Misspelling of peloton."
      ],
      "id": "en-peleton-en-noun-MmwYEf4x",
      "links": [
        [
          "peloton",
          "peloton#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "misspelling"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "peleton"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English terms derived from French",
    "English undefined derivations"
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "fr",
        "3": "peloton",
        "4": "",
        "5": "little ball"
      },
      "expansion": "French peloton (“little ball”)",
      "name": "uder"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From the French peloton (“little ball”); compare peloton.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "peletons",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "peleton (plural peletons)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with obsolete senses",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English terms with rare senses"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1716, Miles Davies, “Of Medals, and Writings and Writers thereupon.”, in Athenæ Britannicæ: or, A critical history of the Oxford and Cambrige writers and writings, page 93",
          "text": "[…] who continu'd still to pelter him with Heaps and Clouds of those Historical Balls or Librarian Bullets, or Pelotes or Peletons; […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A small pellet or ball."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "pellet",
          "pellet"
        ],
        [
          "ball",
          "ball"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete, rare) A small pellet or ball."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "obsolete",
        "rare"
      ]
    },
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "peloton"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        "English misspellings",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2009 January 18, Christopher Clarey, “Armstrong Returns to Riding With a Purpose”, in New York Times",
          "text": "It is a tribute to the past of bicycle racing and is full of antique equipment, faded photographs and videos of sprints and peletons past.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Misspelling of peloton."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "peloton",
          "peloton#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "misspelling"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "peleton"
}