| Pallet (pallet) |
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| Pal"let |
[OE. paillet, F.
paillet a heap of straw, fr. paille straw, fr. L.
palea chaff; cf. Gr. (?) fine meal, dust, Skr. pala
straw, pal va chaff. Cf. Paillasse.] |
A small
and mean bed; a bed of straw.
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A perpendicular band upon an
escutcheon, one half the breadth of the pale.
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Same as Palette.
A
wooden implement used by potters, crucible makers, etc., for forming,
beating, and rounding their works. It is oval, round, and of other
forms.
An
instrument used to take up gold leaf from the pillow, and to apply
it.
A board on which a
newly molded brick is conveyed to the hack.
A click
or pawl for driving a ratchet wheel.
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.
In the organ, a valve between
the wind chest and the mouth of a pipe or row of pipes.
One of a pair of shelly
plates that protect the siphon tubes of certain bivalves, as the
Teredo. See Illust. of Teredo.
A cup containing three ounces, --
(?)ormerly used by surgeons.
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