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pallet

 

  4  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Palette  \Pal"ette\,  n.  [See  {Pallet}  a  thin  board.] 
  1.  (Paint.)  A  thin,  oval  or  square  board,  or  tablet,  with  a 
  thumb  hole  at  one  end  for  holding  it  on  which  a  painter 
  lays  and  mixes  his  pigments.  [Written  also  {pallet}.] 
 
  2.  (Anc.  Armor)  One  of  the  plates  covering  the  points  of 
  junction  at  the  bend  of  the  shoulders  and  elbows. 
  --Fairholt. 
 
  3.  (Mech.)  A  breastplate  for  a  breast  drill. 
 
  {Palette  knife},  a  knife  with  a  very  flexible  steel  blade  and 
  no  cutting  edge,  rounded  at  the  end  used  by  painters  to 
  mix  colors  on  the  grinding  slab  or  palette. 
 
  {To  set  the  palette}  (Paint.),  to  lay  upon  it  the  required 
  pigments  in  a  certain  order  according  to  the  intended  use 
  of  them  in  a  picture.  --Fairholt. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Pallet  \Pal"let\,  n.  [OE.  paillet,  F.  paillet  a  heap  of  straw, 
  fr  paille  straw,  fr  L.  palea  chaff;  cf  Gr  ?  fine  meal, 
  dust,  Skr.  pala  straw,  pal[=a]va  chaff.  Cf  {Paillasse}.] 
  A  small  and  mean  bed;  a  bed  of  straw.  --Milton. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Pallet  \Pal"let\,  n.  [F.  palette:  af  It  paletta;  prop.  and 
  orig.,  a  fire  shovel,  dim.  of  L.  pala  a  shovel,  spade.  See 
  {Peel}  a  shovel.] 
  1.  (Paint.)  Same  as  {Palette}. 
 
  2.  (Pettery) 
  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.  --Knight. 
 
  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.  --Knight. 
 
  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.  --Brande  &  C. 
 
  7.  (Mus.)  In  the  organ,  a  valve  between  the  wind  chest  and 
  the  mouth  of  a  pipe  or  row  of  pipes. 
 
  8.  (Zo["o]l.)  One  of  a  pair  of  shelly  plates  that  protect  the 
  siphon  tubes  of  certain  bivalves,  as  the  Teredo.  See 
  Illust.  of  {Teredo}. 
 
  9.  A  cup  containing  three  ounces,  --  ?ormerly  used  by 
  surgeons. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  pallet 
  n  1:  the  range  of  colour  characteristic  of  a  particular  artist  or 
  painting  or  school  of  art"  [syn:  {palette}] 
  2:  a  mattress  filled  with  straw  or  a  pad  made  of  quilts;  used 
  as  a  bed 
  3:  a  flat  surface  on  which  artists  mix  paints  and  the  range  of 
  colors  used  [syn:  {palette}]




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