Definitions for the word "pallet" from multiple English dictionaries.
1. n.
A small and mean bed; a bed of straw.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
2. n.
Same as Palette.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
3. 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.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
4. n.
A potter's wheel.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
5. n.
An instrument used to take up gold leaf from the pillow, and to apply it.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
6. n.
A tool for gilding the backs of books over the bands.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
7. n.
A board on which a newly molded brick is conveyed to the hack.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
8. n.
A click or pawl for driving a ratchet wheel.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
9. n.
One of the series of disks or pistons in the chain pump.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
10. 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.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
11. n.
In the organ, a valve between the wind chest and the mouth of a pipe or row of pipes.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
12. n.
One of a pair of shelly plates that protect the siphon tubes of certain bivalves, as the Teredo. See Illust. of Teredo.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
13. n.
A cup containing three ounces, -- /ormerly used by surgeons.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
14. n.
1 straw mattress. 2 mean or makeshift bed. [latin palea straw]
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884
15. n.
Portable platform for transporting and storing loads. [french: related to *palette]
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884
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