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n. A projection on a machine part, such as a pawl for controlling the motion of a ratchet wheel in a watch escapement, that engages the teeth of a ratchet wheel to convert reciprocating motion to rotary motion or vice versa.

n. A wooden, shovellike potter's tool used for mixing and shaping clay.

n. A metal tool used for printing on book bindings.

n. A fine brush used for taking up and applying gold leaf.

n. A portable platform used for storing or moving cargo or freight.

n. A painter's palette.

n. A narrow hard bed or straw-filled mattress.

n. Chiefly Southern U.S. A temporary bed made from bedding arranged on the floor, especially for a child.

n. a portable platform, usually designed to be easily moved by a forklift, on which goods can be stacked, for transport or storage.

n. A straw bed.

n. A makeshift bed.

n. A narrow vertical strip.

n. A small and mean bed; a bed of straw.

n. A perpendicular band upon an escutcheon, one half the breadth of the pale.

n. Same as palette.

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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.

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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.

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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, -- formerly used by surgeons.

n. 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.

n. A mattress, couch, or bed, especially one of straw.

n. An oval or round wooden instrument used by potters, crucible-makers, etc., for forming, beating, and rounding their wares.

n. In gilding, an instrument used to take up the gold-leaves from the pillow, and to apply and extend them.

n. In bookbinding: A shallow box of brass, fitted with an end- and side-screw and handle, in which are fastened the types selected for lettering the backs of books.

n. A brass plate engraved with the letters to be used for the back of a book, and fitted with a handle: used by book-gilders.

n. In painting, same as palette.

n. In organ-building, a hinged wooden valve intended to admit or to release the compressed air; especially, a valve operated by a digital of a keyboard, by which the air is admitted to a groove or channel over which stand the pipes belonging to that digital; also, a valve (waste-pallet) which allows the surplus air to escape when the storage-bellows is too full. Also called valve-pallet. See cut under organ.

n. A board on which green bricks are carried to the hack or to the drying-place.

n. A lip or projection on the point of a pawl engaging the teeth of a wheel, as the pallet on a pendulum or on the arbor of a balance-wheel in a clock or watch, or, in some forms of feed-motions, for transforming a reciprocating motion into a rotary motion, or the reverse. It is always used with the escapement of a clock or watch, whatever its shape. See gathering-pallet.

n. A ballast-locker, formerly built in the hold of a ship.

n. One of the disks on the chain of a chain-pump.

n. In conchology, one of the accessory valves of a mollusk, as of a piddock or teredo. See cut under accessory.

n. A headpiece, or cap of fence, of leather, or of leather and metal.

n. The crown of the head; the skull; the head.

n. In heraldry, a diminutive of the pale, of which it is only one half the breadth. See pale, 5.

n. One of the small spatulate or lance-shape calcareous plates which form part of the boring apparatus of the shells of ship-worms of the family Teredinidæ.

n. In bell-founding, same as crown, 7 .

n. In ceramics, a potters' wheel.

n. the range of colour characteristic of a particular artist or painting or school of art

n. a portable platform for storing or moving goods that are stacked on it

n. a mattress filled with straw or a pad made of quilts; used as a bed

n. a hand tool with a flat blade used by potters for mixing and shaping clay

n. board that provides a flat surface on which artists mix paints and the range of colors used

"McCain already has: he and his wife adopted a girl with a cleft pallet from the country."

pallets   

reach    scope    range    compass    orbit    ambit    platform    mattress    hand tool    board   

palette    teredo   

be    implement    catch   

ballot    palate    palette   

mattress    cot    bunk    crate    couch    mat    pillow    stretcher    stool    container