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Pallet :: Pallet (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..

Lead :: Lead (n.) The action of a tooth, as a tooth of a wheel, in impelling another tooth or a pallet..

Page :: Page (n.) A track along which pallets carrying newly molded bricks are conveyed to the hack.

Knife :: Knife (n.) An instrument consisting of a thin blade, usually of steel and having a sharp edge for cutting, fastened to a handle, but of many different forms and names for different uses; as, table knife, drawing knife, putty knife, pallet knife, pocketknife, penknife, chopping knife, etc...

Escapement :: Escapement (n.) The contrivance in a timepiece which connects the train of wheel work with the pendulum or balance, giving to the latter the impulse by which it is kept in vibration; -- so called because it allows a tooth to escape from a pallet at each vibration..

Pallet :: Pallet (n.) An instrument used to take up gold leaf from the pillow, and to apply it..

Pallet :: Pallet (n.) A small and mean bed; a bed of straw.

Scape-wheel :: Scape-wheel (n.) The wheel in an escapement (as of a clock or a watch) into the teeth of which the pallets play.

Vergette :: Vergette (a.) Divided by pallets, or pales; paly..

Pallet :: Pallet (n.) One of a pair of shelly plates that protect the siphon tubes of certain bivalves, as the Teredo. See Illust. of Teredo..

Pallet :: Pallet (n.) A tool for gilding the backs of books over the bands.

Pallet :: Pallet (n.) A potter's wheel.

Pallet :: Pallet (n.) A cup containing three ounces, -- /ormerly used by surgeons..

Verge :: Verge (n.) The spindle of a watch balance, especially one with pallets, as in the old vertical escapement. See under Escapement..

Pallet :: Pallet (n.) Same as Palette.

Pallet :: Pallet (n.) A board on which a newly molded brick is conveyed to the hack.

Sticker :: Sticker (n.) In the organ, a small wooden rod which connects (in part) a key and a pallet, so as to communicate motion by pushing..

Tracker :: Tracker (n.) In the organ, a light strip of wood connecting (in path) a key and a pallet, to communicate motion by pulling..

Pallet :: Pallet (n.) In the organ, a valve between the wind chest and the mouth of a pipe or row of pipes..

Pallet :: Pallet (n.) A click or pawl for driving a ratchet wheel.

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