Pallet

Same as: palette

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.