palla site (palas it)

[ 4245 the hack or to the drying-place.-7. Alip or projection on the point of a pawl engaging the teeth of a wheel, as the pallet on a pendulum or on the arbor of a balance reverse. Pallet, 7. a and b are the chorscapement which oscillates on the pivot c. wheel in a clock or watch, or, in some forms of feed-motions, for transforming a reciprocating mo- tion into a rotary motion, or the It is always used with the escapement of a clock or watch, whatever its shape. See gathering - pallet . -8. A ballast- locker, formerly built in the hold of a ship.-9. One of the disks on the chain of a chain-pump.-10. In conch ., one of the acce ory valves of a mollusk, as of a pid- dock or teredo. See cut under acce ory . pallet3 (palet), n. [ pallette , palet , a head- piece, the head, palet , a headpiece, a cap of fence, the head, also, in fencing, a stick, ba- ton; cf. palette , f., a stick, dim. of pal , a stake, stick: see palel .] 1. A headpiece, or cap of fence, of leather, or of leather and metal. Thei had non other signe to schewe the lawe But a preuy pallette her pannes to kepe, To hille here lewde heed in stede of an houe. Richard the Redele , iii. 325. others attends the coffin at a funeral: so called from the old custom of holding the corners and edges of the pall as the coffin was carried, whether on a vehicle or by men.