Definition of pallet

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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..

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Vergette :: Vergette (a.) Divided by pallets, or pales; paly..
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.) A click or pawl for driving a ratchet wheel.
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 potter's wheel.
Pallet :: Pallet (n.) A tool for gilding the backs of books over the bands.
Pallet :: Pallet (n.) A small and mean bed; a bed of straw.
Page :: Page (n.) A track along which pallets carrying newly molded bricks are conveyed to the hack.
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.
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.) 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 cup containing three ounces, -- /ormerly used by surgeons..
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..
Pallet :: Pallet (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..
Lead :: Lead (n.) The action of a tooth, as a tooth of a wheel, in impelling another tooth or a pallet..
Pallet :: Pallet (n.) An instrument used to take up gold leaf from the pillow, and to apply it..
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..
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...
Pallet :: Pallet (n.) One of the series of disks or pistons in the chain pump.
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