English Dictionary

pallet

/ˈpælɪt/

noun

(painting) Archaic form of palette. / A wooden implement, often oval or round, used by potters, crucible makers, etc., for forming, beating, and rounding their works. / A potter's wheel.

She placed the paintbrushes on the pallet.

意味（1）

(painting) Archaic form of palette.

The Old Dragon fled when the wonder he spied, / And cursed his own fruitless endeavor; / While the Painter call'd after his rage to deride, / Shook his pallet and brushes in triumph, and cried, / I'll paint thee more ugly than ever!

意味（2）

A wooden implement, often oval or round, used by potters, crucible makers, etc., for forming, beating, and rounding their works.

意味（3）

A potter's wheel.

意味（4）

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

意味（5）

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

意味（6）

(brickmaking) A board on which a newly moulded brick is conveyed to the hack.

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(engineering) A click or pawl for driving a ratchet wheel.

意味（8）

(engineering) One of the series of disks or pistons in the chain pump.

意味（9）

(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.

the swing wheel […]is represented as being locked by one of its teeth on the nib or detent part of the right hand pallet, and the moment when the wheel is unlocked, the tooth at the left hand pallet is ready to press forward and raise up that pallet

意味（10）

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

意味（11）

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

意味（12）

A cup containing three ounces, formerly used by surgeons.