PALLET

A small and mean bed; a bed of straw. Milton.

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.

A potter's wheel.

An instrument used to take up gold leaf from the pillow, and to apply it.

A tool for gilding the backs of books over the bands.

A board on which a newly molded brick is conveyed to the hack. Knight.

A click or pawl for driving a ratchet wheel.

One of the series of disks or pistons in the chain pump. Knight.

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.

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, --