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1. (n.) pallet
a bed or mattress of straw.
2. pallet
a small or makeshift bed.
3. (n.) pallet
a low, portable platform on which goods are placed for storage or moving.
4. pallet
a flat board or metal plate used to support ceramics during drying.
5. pallet
a lever in a timepiece that receives impulses from the escape wheel and transmits them to the balance.
6. pallet
a painter's palette.
7. pallet
(on a pawl) a lip or projection that engages with the teeth of a ratchet wheel.
8. pallet
a shaping tool used by potters, consisting of a flat blade or plate with a handle.
9. (v.t.) pallet
to palletize.
Etymology: (1550–60; < MF palette small shovel. See palette)
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Princeton's WordNet |
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1. (noun) palette, pallet
the range of colour characteristic of a particular artist or painting or school of art
2. (noun) pallet
a portable platform for storing or moving goods that are stacked on it
3. (noun) pallet
a hand tool with a flat blade used by potters for mixing and shaping clay
4. (noun) pallet
a mattress filled with straw or a pad made of quilts; used as a bed
5. (noun) palette, pallet
board that provides a flat surface on which artists mix paints and the range of colors used
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Webster Dictionary |
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1. (noun) Pallet
a small and mean bed; a bed of straw
2. (noun) Pallet
same as Palette
3. (noun) Pallet
a wooden implement used by potters, crucible makers, etc., for forming, beating, and rounding their works. It is oval, round, and of other forms
4. (noun) Pallet
a potter's wheel
5. (noun) Pallet
an instrument used to take up gold leaf from the pillow, and to apply it
6. (noun) Pallet
a tool for gilding the backs of books over the bands
7. (noun) Pallet
a board on which a newly molded brick is conveyed to the hack
8. (noun) Pallet
a click or pawl for driving a ratchet wheel
9. (noun) Pallet
one of the series of disks or pistons in the chain pump
10. (noun) Pallet
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
11. (noun) Pallet
in the organ, a valve between the wind chest and the mouth of a pipe or row of pipes
12. (noun) Pallet
one of a pair of shelly plates that protect the siphon tubes of certain bivalves, as the Teredo. See Illust. of Teredo
13. (noun) Pallet
a cup containing three ounces, -- /ormerly used by surgeons
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