pallet
/ˈpælɪt/ noun C2- A wooden implement, often oval or round, used by potters, crucible makers, etc., for forming, beating, and rounding their works.
- A potter's wheel.
- An instrument used to take up gold leaf from the pillow, and to apply it.
- A tool for gilding the backs of books over the bands.
- A board on which a newly moulded brick is conveyed to the hack.
- A click or pawl for driving a ratchet wheel.
- One of the series of disks or pistons in the chain pump.
- 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.
Plural pallets
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Sometimes he was delirious, and fancied he saw an old man stretched on a pallet; he, also, was dying of hunger.
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