What does "pallet" mean?
Pallet: (Paint.) Same as Palette.
Additional senses
- 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) 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) 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.) In the organ, a valve between the wind chest and the mouth of a pipe or row of pipes.
- 8.(Zoöl.) 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, --
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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