kibble

IPA: kˈɪbʌɫ

Something that has been kibbled, especially grain for use as animal feed.
Any artificial animal feed in pellet form.
An iron bucket used in mines for hoisting anything to the surface.
(fandom slang) In the Transformers fandom, pieces of a toy or figure necessary for one mode, but appearing out of place or unnecessary in the other.
A surname from Old English.

Examples of "kibble" in Sentences

Inside the bag, I discovered that their kibble is a small, thick triangle shape.
Fido's food may be making kids sick; CDC calls kibble an under-recognized salmonella source
All kibble, which is cheaper than canned or raw, must have grain, potato, or tapioca in it to hold it together.
This is mostly b.s. The dry cat food that I feed my cats is not "kibble" -- it does not contain mostly carbohydrates.
The aggrandized bucket or "kibble" of the Cornishman has practically disappeared, but the cage still remains in many mines.
It is to be put into an iron bucket called a kibble, which is like a huge gypsy-pot (big enough to hold two ordinary-sized people thinly clad), suspended by three chains.
So we fill them up on dry "kibble," which combines animal products with vegetable-based starches, and meat-based canned "wet" foods, many containing parts of animals cats would likely never encounter, much less hunt and kill, in a purely natural situation.