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Definition of pallet
pal´let Pronunciation: păl´lĕt | n. | 1. | A small and mean bed; a bed of straw. | | 1. | (Her.) A perpendicular band upon an escutcheon, one half the breadth of the pale. | | 1. | (Paint.) Same as Palette. | | 2. | (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. | | 3. | (Gilding) An instrument used to take up gold leaf from the pillow, and to apply it. | | 4. | (Brickmaking) A board on which a newly molded brick is conveyed to the hack. | | 5. | (Mach.) A click or pawl for driving a ratchet wheel. | | 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. | | 7. | (Mus.) In the organ, a valve between the wind chest and the mouth of a pipe or row of pipes. | | 8. | (Zool.) 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. |
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