Category:Pallet

Pal"let, n. Etym: [oe. paillet, f. paillet a heap of straw, fr. Paille straw, fr. L. palea chaff; cf. Gr. pala straw, palava chaff. Cf. Paillasse.]

Defn: a small and mean bed; a bed of straw. Milton.

Pallet Pal"let, n. Etym: [f. palette: af. It. paletta; prop. and orig., a Fire shovel, dim. of l. pala a shovel, spade. See peel a shovel.]

1. (paint.)

Defn: same as palette.

2. (pettery) (a) a wooden implement used by potters, crucible makers, etc., for Forming, beating, and rounding their works. It is oval, round, and of Other forms. (b) a potter's wheel.

3. (gilding) (a) an instrument used to take up gold leaf from the pillow, and to Apply it. (b) a tool for gilding the backs of books over the bands.

4. (brickmaking)

Defn: a board on which a newly molded brick is conveyed to the hack. Knight.

5. (mach.) (a) a click or pawl for driving a ratchet wheel. (b) one of the series of disks or pistons in the chain pump. Knight.

6. (horology)

Defn: one of the pieces or levers connected with the pendulum of a Clock, or the balance of a watch, which receive the immediate impulse Of the scape-wheel, or balance wheel. Brande & c.

7. (mus.)

Defn: in the organ, a valve between the wind chest and the mouth of a Pipe or row of pipes.

8. (zoöl.)

Defn: one of a pair of shelly plates that protect the siphon tubes of Certain bivalves, as the teredo. See illust. of teredo.

9. A cup containing three ounces, --