Pallet
['pælɪt] or ['pælət]
Definition
(noun.) a mattress filled with straw or a pad made of quilts; used as a bed.
(noun.) a hand tool with a flat blade used by potters for mixing and shaping clay.
(noun.) a portable platform for storing or moving goods that are stacked on it.
Inputed by Kari--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A small and mean bed; a bed of straw.
(n.) Same as Palette.
(n.) A wooden implement used by potters, crucible makers, etc., for forming, beating, and rounding their works. It is oval, round, and of other forms.
(n.) A potter's wheel.
(n.) An instrument used to take up gold leaf from the pillow, and to apply it.
(n.) A tool for gilding the backs of books over the bands.
(n.) A board on which a newly molded brick is conveyed to the hack.
(n.) A click or pawl for driving a ratchet wheel.
(n.) One of the series of disks or pistons in the chain pump.
(n.) 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.
(n.) In the organ, a valve between the wind chest and the mouth of a pipe or row of pipes.
(n.) One of a pair of shelly plates that protect the siphon tubes of certain bivalves, as the Teredo. See Illust. of Teredo.
(n.) A cup containing three ounces, -- /ormerly used by surgeons.
Typist: Perry
Definition
n. a palette: the tool used by potters for shaping their wares: an instrument for spreading gold-leaf: a tool used in lettering the backs of books: one of the points moved by the pendulum of a clock which check the motion of the escape or balance wheel: a disc in the endless chain of a chain-pump: a ballast-locker in a ship: a valve by which the admission of air from the bellows to an organ-pipe may be regulated from the keyboard: a board for carrying newly moulded bricks.
n. a mattress or couch properly a mattress of straw.
Typist: Waldo
Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of a pallet, denotes that you will suffer temporary uneasiness over your love affairs. For a young woman, it is a sign of a jealous rival.
Inputed by Leila
Examples
- Its inclined top gave the pallet a little push so that the first pallet was locked, forcing the fork and roller, and the balance and hair spring, to move in the opposite direction. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- In swinging out in this way it must also swing in the other pallet arm, and that movement will bring it directly in front of another wheel tooth, so that the wheel can turn no further. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- In the escape wheel, the left arm of the pallet rests on the inclined top of one of the wheel teeth. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Her pallet and easel were now thrown aside; did she try to paint, thronging recollections made her hand tremble, her eyes fill with tears. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- There was no furniture save a little pallet bed, a small table, and a basketful of linen. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- When that wheel turns to the right, as it must, it will force back the arm of the pallet which swings on its arbor. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- An examination of the escape wheel would show that it has a peculiarly shaped piece, which is called the pallet, the extended arm of which is called the fork. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
Edited by Cary