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