pallet Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun the range of colour characteristic of a particular artist or painting or school of art
    palette.
  2. noun a portable platform for storing or moving goods that are stacked on it
  3. noun a hand tool with a flat blade used by potters for mixing and shaping clay
  4. noun a mattress filled with straw or a pad made of quilts; used as a bed
  5. noun board that provides a flat surface on which artists mix paints and the range of colors used
    palette.

WordNet

Pal"let noun
Etymology
OE. paillet, F. paillet a heap of straw, fr. paille straw, fr. L. palea chaff; cf. Gr. fine meal, dust, Skr. pala straw, palava chaff. Cf. Paillasse.
Definitions
  1. A small and mean bed; a bed of straw. Milton.
Pal"let noun
Etymology
F. palette: af. It. paletta; prop. and orig., a fire shovel, dim. of L. pala a shovel, spade. See Peel a shovel.
Definitions
  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. (Zoöl.) 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.

Webster 1913