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noun

pallet n. A small and mean bed; a bed of straw.

Pallet n. (Her.) A perpendicular band upon an escutcheon, one half the breadth of the pale.

Pallet n.

1.

(Paint.) Same as Palette.

2.

(Pottery)

(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.

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.

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.

7.

(Mus.) In the organ, a valve between the wind chest and the mouth of a pipe or row of pipes.

8.

(Zool.) One of a pair of shelly plates that protect the siphon tubes of certain bivalves, as the Teredo.

9.

A cup containing three ounces, formerly used by surgeons.

10.

A low movable platform used for temporary storage of objects so that they can be conveniently moved; it is commonly made of wooden boards, about 4 inches high, and typically has openings in the side into which the blades of a fork-lift truck may be inserted so as to lift and move the pallet and the objects on it.

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"Pallet" Quotes from Famous Books

... that was received by the emigrants with dismay, and then with wrath. But they were assured, that this was indispensable to the getting rid of an otherwise long detention of some weeks at the quarantine. They therefore reluctantly complied; and overboard went pallet and pillow. Following them, went old pots and pans, bottles and baskets. So, all around, the sea was strewn with stuffed bed-ticks, that limberly floated on the waves—couches for all mermaids who were not fastidious. ...

— Redburn. His First Voyage • Herman Melville

... "I have done it all for you. Surely you cannot be angry when I have killed them all for you? Oh, my darling, my darling! If you only knew how I love you! Oh, my darling, my darling!" and in an agony of passion he flung himself on to the rough pallet in the corner of the hut and sobbed himself ...

— Jess • H. Rider Haggard

... first on one side of the arm of balance and then on the other, and so pin my hairspring in the stud, that it will let off as readily on one side as the other. I had forgotten to say that every watch should have a little oil on the face of the pallet stones. I know full well that some workmen will say that there should be none, but I can tell of scores of watches that have failed and indeed stopped simply for want of oil on the pallets. Selecting mainsprings, too, needs much more care than is usually ...

— Scientific American Supplement, No. 664, September 22,1888 • Various

... is a wooden slip covered with soft leather, called the valve or pallet, which covers the openings in the reed board which admit air to pass down through the reeds. The tracker pin, pushed down by the key, opens the pallet which is held against the reed board by a spring and kept in place by a guide pin at each end. ...

— Piano Tuning - A Simple and Accurate Method for Amateurs • J. Cree Fischer

... these frenzied nuptials the wretched clerk lay on a pallet bed in a garret in his master's house in the Rue Saint-Honore. Shame, the stupid goddess who dares not behold herself, had taken possession of the young man. He had fallen ill; he would nurse himself; misjudged the ...

— Melmoth Reconciled • Honore de Balzac

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