Pallet



Same as: palette
ENGLISH MEANING
noun
1.
A small and mean bed; a bed of straw.
2.
A wooden implement used by potters, crucible makers, etc., for forming, beating, and rounding their works. It is oval, round, and of other forms.
3.
A potter's wheel.
4.
An instrument used to take up gold leaf from the pillow, and to apply it.
5.
A tool for gilding the backs of books over the bands.
6.
A board on which a newly molded brick is conveyed to the hack.
7.
A click or pawl for driving a ratchet wheel.
8.
One of the series of disks or pistons in the chain pump.
9.
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.
10.
In the organ, a valve between the wind chest and the mouth of a pipe or row of pipes.
11.
One of a pair of shelly plates that protect the siphon tubes of certain bivalves, as the Teredo.
12.
A cup containing three ounces, -- formerly used by surgeons.