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, palAva chaff. Cf. Paillasse.]
A small and mean bed; a bed of straw. Milton.
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Pal"let, n. [Dim. of pale. See Pale a stake.] (Her.)
A perpendicular band upon an escutcheon, one half the breadth of the pale.
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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. (Pottery)
(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. (Zoöl.)
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.
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