pallet
pallet (pal"let) , noun
[Old English paillet, French paillet a heap of straw, from paille straw, from Latin palea chaff; compare Greek {not transcribed} fine meal, dust, Sanskrit pala straw, palāva chaff. Compare Paillasse.]
A small and mean bed; a bed of straw. — Milton
Pallet , noun
[Dim. of pale. See Pale a stake.]
(Heraldry) A perpendicular band upon an escutcheon, one half the breadth of the pale.
Pallet , noun
[French palette: af. Italian paletta; prop. and orig., a fire shovel, dim. of Latin pala a shovel, spade. See Peel a shovel.]
1.
(Painting) Same as Palette.
2.
(a) (Pottery) 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)
(Pottery) A potter's wheel.
3.
(a) (Gilding) An instrument used to take up gold leaf from the pillow, and to apply it.
(b)
(Gilding) 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.
(a) (Machinery) A click or pawl for driving a ratchet wheel.
(b)
(Machinery) 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.
(Music) In the organ, a valve between the wind chest and the mouth of a pipe or row of pipes.
8.
(Zoology) 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, -- formerly used by surgeons.
10.
A low movable platform used for temporary storage of objects so that they can be conveniently moved; it is commonly made of wooden boards, about 4 inches high, and typically has openings in the side into which the blades of a fork-lift truck may be inserted so as to lift and move the pallet and the objects on it.