Definition of pallet

• n. - A small and mean bed; a bed of straw.
• n. - Same as Palette.
• 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.
• n. - A potter's wheel.
• n. - An instrument used to take up gold leaf from the pillow, and to apply it.
• n. - A tool for gilding the backs of books over the bands.
• n. - A board on which a newly molded brick is conveyed to the hack.
• n. - A click or pawl for driving a ratchet wheel.
• n. - One of the series of disks or pistons in the chain pump.
• 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.
• n. - In the organ, a valve between the wind chest and the mouth of a pipe or row of pipes.
• n. - One of a pair of shelly plates that protect the siphon tubes of certain bivalves, as the Teredo. See Illust. of Teredo.
• n. - A cup containing three ounces, -- /ormerly used by surgeons.