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Pallet : (noun)
1: the range of colour characteristic of a particular artist or
painting or school of art [syn: palette]
2: a portable platform for storing or moving goods that are
stacked on it
3: a hand tool with a flat blade used by potters for mixing and
shaping clay
4: a mattress filled with straw or a pad made of quilts; used
as a bed
5: board that provides a flat surface on which artists mix
paints and the range of colors used [syn: palette]
Based on WordNet 2.0
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Palette \Pal"ette\, n. [See Pallet a thin board.]
1. (Paint.) A thin, oval or square board, or tablet, with a
thumb hole at one end for holding it, on which a painter
lays and mixes his pigments. [Written also pallet.]
2. (Anc. Armor) One of the plates covering the points of
junction at the bend of the shoulders and elbows.
--Fairholt.
3. (Mech.) A breastplate for a breast drill.
Palette knife, a knife with a very flexible steel blade and
no cutting edge, rounded at the end, used by painters to
mix colors on the grinding slab or palette.
To set the palette (Paint.), to lay upon it the required
pigments in a certain order, according to the intended use
of them in a picture. --Fairholt.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Pallet : \Pal"let\, n. [OE. paillet, F. paillet a heap of straw,
fr. paille straw, fr. L. palea chaff; cf. Gr. ? fine meal,
dust, Skr. pala straw, pal[=a]va chaff. Cf. Paillasse.]
A small and mean bed; a bed of straw. --Milton.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Pallet : \Pal"let\, n. [F. palette: af. It. paletta; prop. and
orig., a fire shovel, dim. of L. pala a shovel, spade. See
Peel a shovel.]
1. (Paint.) Same as Palette.
2. (Pettery)
(a) A wooden implement used by potters, crucible makers,
etc., for forming, beating, and rounding their works.
It is oval, round, and of other forms.
(b) A potter's wheel.
3. (Gilding)
(a) An instrument used to take up gold leaf from the
pillow, and to apply it.
(b) A tool for gilding the backs of books over the bands.
4. (Brickmaking) A board on which a newly molded brick is
conveyed to the hack. --Knight.
5. (Mach.)
(a) A click or pawl for driving a ratchet wheel.
(b) One of the series of disks or pistons in the chain
pump. --Knight.
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. --Brande & C.
7. (Mus.) In the organ, a valve between the wind chest and
the mouth of a pipe or row of pipes.
8. (Zo["o]l.) 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, -- ?ormerly used by
surgeons.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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