Definitions for: Pallet


[n] board that provides a flat surface on which artists mix paints and the range of colors used
[n] a mattress filled with straw or a pad made of quilts; used as a bed
[n] a hand tool with a flat blade used by potters for mixing and shaping clay
[n] a portable platform for storing or moving goods that are stacked on it
[n] the range of colour characteristic of a particular artist or painting or school of art



Webster (1913) Definition: 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.


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.

Synonyms: palette, palette

See Also: ambit, board, compass, hand tool, mattress, orbit, platform, range, reach, scope

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