pallet2 (palet)

[A more E. spelling of pa lette, q.v.] 1. An oval or round wooden instrument used by potters, crucible-makers, etc., for forming, beating, and rounding their wares. -2. In gilding, an instrument used to take up the gold-leaves from the pillow, and to apply and extend them.-3. In bookbinding: (a) A shallow box of bra , fitted with an end-and side-screw and handle, in which are fastened the types selected for lettering the backs of books. ( b ) A bra plate engraved with the letters to be used for the back of a book, and fitted with a handle: used by book-gilders.4. In painting, same as palette.-5. In organ building, a hinged wooden valve intended to admit or to release the compre ed air; especially, a valve operated by a of a keyboard, by which the air is admitted to a groove or channel over which stand the pipes belonging to that ; also, a valve (waste pallet) which allows the surplus air to escape when the storage-bellows is too full. Also called valve - pallet. See cut under organ1.-6. A board on which green bricks are carried to Than Elynour sayd, Ye callettes, I shall breake your palettes . Skelton , Elynour Rummyng, 1. 348. 3. In her ., a diminutive of the pale, of which it is only one half the breadth. See palel , 5. pallet-arbor (pal'et-är bor), n. In watch -and clock - making , an arbor bearing a pallet. In all clocks of this kind the pallet - arbors are set in small cocks. Sir E. Beckett , Clocks and Watches, p. 185. pallet-box (pal'et-boks), n . In organ - building , the box or chest in which are placed the pallets belonging to one of the keyboards. It forms a part of the wind-chest. See cut under organ1. In organ - building , an pallet-eye (pal'et-i), n. eye or loop of metal in the movable end of a pallet, to which the wire at the end of the tracker is attached.