† palletn.1
Obsolete (Scottish in later use).
1. A piece of armour for the head, a helmet; a type of headpiece or skullcap (usually of leather).
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > armour > helmet > [noun] > leather helmet
palletc1330
pricking-pallet1403
c1330 (?a1300) Arthour & Merlin (Auch.) (1973) 8667 (MED) Leodegan and alle his ost Armed hem..Boþe wiþ bacin and eke palet, And helme on her heued yset.
1393 in A. H. Thomas Cal. Plea & Mem. Rolls London Guildhall (1932) III. 212 (MED) [One] palett [with] aventaill.
1411 in F. J. Furnivall Fifty Earliest Eng. Wills (1882) 19 An aburioun of stele with a pallette couerte with reede velwette.
Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 378 Palet, armowre for the heed, pelliris, galerus.
c1475 (c1399) Mum & Sothsegger (Cambr. Ll.4.14) (1936) iii. 325 A preuy pallette her pannes to kepe, To hille here lewde heed in stede of an houe.
1637 Edinb. Test. LVIII. f. 216v, in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue at Pellet I leave to..my dochter..the pellett of pairlingis.
2. The head.
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the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > [noun]
nolleOE
headOE
topa1225
copc1264
scalpa1300
chiefc1330
crownc1330
jowla1400
poll?a1400
testea1400
ball in the hoodc1400
palleta1425
noddle?1507
costard?1515
nab?1536
neck1560
coxcomb1567
sconce1567
now1568
headpiece1579
mazer1581
mazardc1595
cockcomb1602
costrel1604
cranion1611
pasha1616
noddle pate1622
block1635
cranium1647
sallet1652
poundrel1664
nob1699
crany?1730
knowledge box1755
noodle1762
noggin1769
napper1785
garret1796
pimple1811
knowledge-casket1822
coco1828
cobbra1832
coconut1834
top-piece1838
nut1841
barnet1857
twopenny1859
chump1864
topknot1869
conk1870
masthead1884
filbert1886
bonce1889
crumpet1891
dome1891
roof1897
beanc1905
belfry1907
hat rack1907
melon1907
box1908
lemon1923
loaf1925
pound1933
sconec1945
nana1966
a1425 (c1333–52) L. Minot Poems (1914) 25 Inglis men sall..Knok þi palet or þou pas And mak þe polled like a frere.
a1513 W. Dunbar Ballat Abbot of Tungland in Poems (1998) I. 57 As blaksmyth bruikit was his pallatt, For battering at the study.
a1529 J. Skelton Tunnyng of Elynour Rummyng in Certayne Bks. (?1545) 348 I shall breake your palettes, Wythout ye now cease!
1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis i. 4 Neptun..his pleasing pallet vpheauing Hee noted Æneas.
1596 T. Nashe Haue with you to Saffron-Walden sig. G2v Not a pinnes head or a moaths pallet.
1638 R. Brathwait Barnabees Journall (new ed.) i. sig. E5 Till I brake a Blacksmiths palled.
c1650 in D. Laing Var. Pieces Fugitive Sc. Poetry (1853) 2nd Ser. xxvi. 55 Twill mend thy muse and uppe his pallett Soe weakened by stronge defluxion.
1706 Mare of Collingtoun in J. Watson Choice Coll. Scots Poems i. 41 Some Draff, whereon this Meir did mallat, Which fiercely gart her lift her Pallat.
1818 G. Beattie John o' Arnha' (ed. 2) 61 The ither bore The gausty pallet, grim wi' gore.
1879 T. Ormond in A. L. Fenton Forfar Poets 147 Bauchled shoon an' tatit pallet.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
palletn.2
/ˈpalᵻt/, U.S. /ˈpælət/α. Middle English pailatt, Middle English paillect (transmission error), Middle English paillet, Middle English paillett, Middle English palyet, Middle English palyete, Middle English paylatt, Middle English paylett, Middle English–1500s paylet, Middle English–1500s payllet, Middle English–1600s pailet, 1500s paliotte; Scottish pre-1700 palȝeat, pre-1700 palȝet.
β. Middle English palete, Middle English–1500s palet, Middle English–1500s palett, 1500s palette, 1500s pallett, 1500s–1600s pallate, 1500s–1700s pallad, 1600s palate, 1600s–1700s pallat, 1600s– pallet, 1700s pullet (in sense 2, irregular); North American and U.S. regional 1600s–1700s pallat, 1700s– pallet, 1900s– pallit; Scottish pre-1700 pelat, 1700s– pallet.
1.
a. A straw bed or mattress; an inferior bed or sleeping place. Also figurative. Now chiefly historical.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > bed > types of bed > [noun] > poor or mean bed
pallet1370
pallet bed1620
pallet-couch1815
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > bed > bedding > [noun] > mattress > filled with straw
pallet1370
palliasse1506
pad1554
pouffe1583
straw-bed1585
pallet bed1620
pallet-couch1815
straw tick1931
1370 in J. Raine Inventories & Acct. Rolls Benedictine Houses Jarrow & Monk-Wearmouth (1854) 53 (MED) In domo fabri..j palet.
1388 Inquisition Misc. (P.R.O.: C 145/332/25) Item j Paylet prec. vj d.
a1425 (c1385) G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde (1987) iii. 229 On a paillet [v.rr. pailet, palete] al that glade nyght By Troilus he lay.
Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 379 Palyet [?a1475 Winch. palyete], lytylle bed, lectica.
a1475 Bk. Curtasye (Sloane 1986) l. 435 in Babees Bk. (2002) i. 313 Gromes palettis shyn fyle and make litere.
1505 in J. B. Paul Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1901) III. 150 Item, for stra to the Quenis pelat... xijd.
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. 527 All this preuaileth not in a leane and hungry ground, vnlesse fatter earth be laied as a pallet vnderneath.
1615 Bp. J. Hall Contempl. III. O.T. xi. 389 This man (though great in Bethleem) laies him downe to rest vpon a pallet.
1637 J. Milton Comus 12 Ere..the low-roosted larke From her thach't palate rowse.
1690–1700 Order of Hospitalls sig. Gii Of Beddes, Bolsters, Mattresses,..Pallads.
1758 O. Goldsmith tr. J. Marteilhe Mem. Protestant I. 92 I perceived the Water had soaked through the Pallet.
1839 T. Moore Epicurean (new ed.) xvi. 165 Content with a rude pallet of straw.
1883 J. A. Froude Short Stud. IV. i. xi. 128 The monks then sought their pallets.
1911 Times 15 Dec. 5/1 It is shown by inventories of the time that the bedding usually consisted of a straw or wool pallet, two feather beds, [etc.].
1988 B. Chatwin Utz 62 She slept on a straw-filled pallet.
b. U.S. (chiefly regional). A temporary or makeshift bed, usually consisting of bedclothes spread on the floor.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > bed > types of bed > [noun] > makeshift bed
shakedown1754
pallet1839
make-up bed1911
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > bed > types of bed > [noun] > other types of bed
childbed1568
plank bed1584
table bed1633
earth-bed1637
pigeon-hole bed1685
box-bed1693
barbecue1697
plaid bedc1710
bed of state1713
pallet1839
high post1842
rocker1854
wire bed1882
lit bateau1895
string cot1895
sleigh bed1902
orthopaedic bed1943
high-low bed1956
futon1959
bateau lit1983
1839 Southern Lit. Messenger July 449/2 By the time we had finished eating, he had spread out a comely pallet of bear and buffalo skins.
1877 Atlantic Monthly June 678/2 Maids..are never assigned to a separate apartment (an attic, etc.) with beds, but pass the night on a pallet spread on the floor of their young mistress's chamber.
1902 B. T. Washington Up from Slavery i. 5 Three children..had a pallet on the dirt floor, or, to be more correct, we slept in and on a bundle of filthy rags laid upon the dirt floor.
1930 W. Faulkner As I lay Dying 183 They made a pallet for him with quilts on top of the coffin.
1989 Chicago Tribune 2 Feb. 13/5 It wasn't unusual for 10 or 15 people to be sleeping on pallets on the floor and on counters.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > parts of vessels > room, locker, or quarters > [noun] > locker > types of
palletc1643
shot-locker1805
shot1834
stern-locker1850
chain-locker1883
chain chest1884
c1643 N. Boteler Dialogues (1929) (modernized text) 228 The Pallet..is a room within the hold, severed and made close, in which by the laying of some pigs of lead..the ship may be sufficiently ballasted, and yet lose but little room in her hold.
1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Pallet, a ballast-locker formerly used, to give room in the hold for other stowage.
Compounds
pallet bed n.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > bed > types of bed > [noun] > poor or mean bed
pallet1370
pallet bed1620
pallet-couch1815
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > bed > bedding > [noun] > mattress > filled with straw
pallet1370
palliasse1506
pad1554
pouffe1583
straw-bed1585
pallet bed1620
pallet-couch1815
straw tick1931
1620 tr. G. Boccaccio Decameron I. ii. iii. f. 35v I can conueigh you thither..and a Pallet-bed shal be fitted there for you.
1848 E. C. Gaskell Mary Barton II. vii. 107 So they laid her, as I said before, on that little palletbed.
1997 J. Noon Nymphomation (1998) 261 The place was roughly circular, with three separate entrances, and only a small pallet bed resting in the centre.
pallet chamber n.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > room > room by type of use > [noun] > bedroom
clevec825
bedchamberc1390
wardrobea1400
kuchiez kotec1400
garderobe?c1450
cubicle1483
pallet chambera1535
bed-place1566
kitchen chamber1573
bedroom1600
cubiculoa1616
lodginga1616
lodging-room1615
bower1674
ruelle1676
lodging-chambera1684
common chamber1684
sleeping-room1699
hall-bedroom1738
berth1806
bunk-room1855
bed-house1881
cubicule1887
bedder1897
bed1926
sleeping-platform1935
roomette1937
single1963
maid-room1992
a1535 T. More Hist. Richard III in Wks. (1557) 68/1 Kyng Richard..came out in to the pailet chamber, on which he found in bed sir Iames and sir Thomas Tyrels.
1978 M. Girouard Life of Eng. Country House iii. 56 Personal servants could sleep in both outer and inner chambers, which then tended to be referred to as ‘pallet chambers’.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > bed > types of bed > [noun] > poor or mean bed
pallet1370
pallet bed1620
pallet-couch1815
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > bed > bedding > [noun] > mattress > filled with straw
pallet1370
palliasse1506
pad1554
pouffe1583
straw-bed1585
pallet bed1620
pallet-couch1815
straw tick1931
1815 W. Scott Lord of Isles iv. xxiii. 159 That pallet-couch, and naked wall.
pallet side n.
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a1650 S. D'Ewes Autobiogr. & Corr. (1845) (modernized text) I. 111 I assisted at her pallet-side, kneeling, weeping, and praying with others.
1772 S. Whyte Peruvian Lett. in Shamrock 388 My Pallet Side officious they attend.
1857 A. J. H. Duganne Tenant-House xxviii. 384 Oh! the music of that child's untaught orison, as it rose tremblingly from her lips, when she had kneeled down by the pallet side!
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
palletn.3
/ˈpalᵻt/, U.S. /ˈpælət/ 1. A flat-bladed instrument or tool, often with a handle, used for a variety of purposes; spec. (in later use) a tool used by potters for shaping their work; a spatula. Cf. palette knife n.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > tool > types of tools generally > [noun] > flat blade-shaped
spature1348
slicec1400
pallet?a1425
spatulea1425
spattlec1440
slice1483
spatula1525
spatter1569
spather1597
lingel1598
spatul1600
languet1611
spathern1634
blade1653
spathula1658
spatha1881
?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 141v (MED) Be the tonge pressed wiþ a palet apte to it.
1558 W. Ward tr. G. Ruscelli Secretes Alexis of Piemount f. 114 Styrynge it well fyrste with a sticke, and than with a pallet broade at the ende.
1686 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Staffs. ix. 390 A rodd of Iron fastned to a pallet, that reaches out a little beyond the Anvil.
1725 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Œconomique at Ointment Beat it with a wooden Palet, and change the Water, so that it becomes as white as Milk.
1728 E. Chambers Cycl. Pallet, among Potters, Crucible-Makers, &c., is a wooden Instrument..for forming, beating, and rounding their Works.
1878 Nature 7 Nov. 6/1 It consists of painting in clay on earthenware with pallet and brush in various gradations of relief, somewhat like impasto.
1967 M. Chandler Ceramics in Mod. World ii. 74 Such mold marks and other surface roughnesses are removed with a flat-bladed instrument called a pallet.
2002 Philippine Daily Inquirer (Nexis) 14 Apr. 8 The children-apprentices..use small bamboo pallets to remove excess clay from the rough edges and rims of the molded earth.
2. A projection on a machine part that engages with the teeth of a wheel to interconvert reciprocating and rotary motions; spec. (in a clock or watch) a projection transmitting motion from an escapement to a pendulum or balance wheel; (also now usually) an escapement having such pallets. Frequently attributive.
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the world > time > instruments for measuring time > clock > [noun] > part(s) of
nut1428
peise1428
plumbc1450
Jack1498
clockwork1516
larum1542
Jack of the clockhouse1563
watch-wheel1568
work1570
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Jack of the clock1581
snail-cam1591
snail-work1591
pointer1596
quarter jack1604
mainspring1605
winder1606
notch-wheel1611
fusee1622
count-wheel1647
jack-wheel1647
frame1658
arbor1659
balance1660
fuse1674
hour-figure1675
stop1675
pallet1676
regulator1676
cock1678
movement1678
detent1688
savage1690
clock1696
pinwheel1696
starred wheel1696
swing-wheel1696
warning-wheel1696
watch1696
watch-part1696
hoop-wheel1704
hour-wheel1704
snail1714
step-wheel1714
tide-work1739
train1751
crutch1753
cannon pinion1764
rising board1769
remontoire1774
escapement1779
clock jack1784
locking plate1786
scapement1789
motion work1795
anchor escapement1798
scape1798
star-wheel1798
recoil escapement1800
recoiling pallet1801
recoiling scapement1801
cannon1802
hammer-tail1805
recoiling escapement1805
bottle jack1810
renovating spring1812
quarter-boy1815
pin tooth1817
solar wheel1819
impulse-teeth1825
pendulum wheel1825
pallet arbor1826
rewinder1826
rack hook1829
snail-wheel1831
quarter bell1832
tow1834
star pulley1836
watch train1838
clock train1843
raising-piece1843
wheelwork1843
gravity escapement1850
jumper1850
vertical escapement1850
time train1853
pin pallet1860
spade1862
dead well1867
stop-work1869
ringer1873
strike-or-silent1875
warning-piece1875
guard-pin1879
pendulum cock1881
warning-lever1881
beat-pin1883
fusee-piece1884
fusee-snail1884
shutter1884
tourbillion1884
tumbler1884
virgule1884
foliot1899
grasshopper1899
grasshopper escapement1899
trunk1899
pin lever1908
clock spring1933
society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > parts of machines > other parts > [noun] > converters
pallet1676
rack1717
parallel motion1728
rack and pinion?c1780
rack bara1824
radius rod1834
rack rod1839
1676 R. Hooke Jrnl. 15 Oct. (1935) 253 Tompion about Dr. Busby's watch. I taught him the way of the single pallet for watches.
1705 Philos. Trans. 1704–05 (Royal Soc.) 24 1788 It is scarce possible to manage the Pallets so, as nicely to make the same Vibrations as were in Vacuo.
a1774 O. Goldsmith Surv. Exper. Philos. (1776) I. 149 The pendulum has two palates,..which at equal intervals rise and fall, and let the teeth of the wheels pass under them in equable succession.
1830 H. Kater & D. Lardner Treat. Mechanics xiv. 194 The pallets are connected with the pendulum so as to oscillate with it.
1877 Encycl. Brit. VI. 17/2 The pallet B will drive the wheel back a little, and produce what is called the recoil.
1962 E. Bruton Dict. Clocks & Watches (1963) 176 Ticks vary from ‘tocks’ because alternate pallets arrest the escape wheel.
1988 Antiquarian Horol. 17 566/1 The rack hook is so shaped that no tail is needed on the gathering pallet.
3. Music. Any one of the valves in the upper part of the windchest of an organ, each of which opens when a corresponding key is pressed, admitting compressed air to a groove beneath the set of pipes corresponding to that key.Also occasionally applied to other valves of an organ (see waste-pallet n. at waste n. Compounds 2).
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > keyboard instrument > organ > [noun] > pallet
palletc1695
waste-pallet1880
c1695 J. Talbot Christ Church Oxf. Music MS 1187 at Organ Ye Wind is forc'd out through ye Wind Pipe into ye Wind Box, & from ynce by means of several Palates straytely Conveyancd into ye Pipe.
1840 Penny Cycl. XVI. 493/2 E is the spring which keeps the pallet in its place when not in use.
1852 tr. J. J. Seidel Organ & its Constr. 48 Of various sorts of valves..those called palates are the most important ones.
1988 Organbuilder May 2/1 Balanced-key mechanical action incorporating wire trackers and plastic pallets; windchests of laminated wood [etc.].
4. † a. In various specialized uses: a flat board, plate, or disc, as the blade of an oar, the float of a paddle wheel, etc. Obsolete.
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the world > space > shape > condition of being broad in relation to thickness > [noun] > object
platec1300
plat1349
pal?1541
slat1634
pallet1722
1722 Philos. Trans. 1720–21 (Royal Soc.) 31 244 There's no Improvement to be made, either with respect to the Proportion of the Oars, their Length, the Breadth of the Pallets.
1726 Philos. Trans. 1725 (Royal Soc.) 33 412 At each End of the Lines, which constitute the Angle,..are two Pallets not much unlike the Figure of the Log.
1727 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Oeconomique (Dublin ed.) at Fox The Fox..will endeavour..to pull out the Food he smells in the Hole..and cause the Pallet to fall.
1808 R. Trevithick & J. Dickinson Specif. Patent 3148 A rowing wheel..furnished with floats or pallets, but which we call our propelling boards.
1837 J. T. Smith in tr. L. J. Vicat Pract. & Sci. Treat. Mortars & Cements 95 (note) The pallet or board (called the ‘hawk’), used by plasterers for mixing small quantities of stucco as they apply it.
b. Brickmaking. A board on to which newly moulded bricks are turned out before drying. Cf. planchet n. 2.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > brick-making equipment > [noun] > board for carrying brick
pallet board1664
planchet1764
pallet1839
1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 189 As the wheel revolves, the piston rods..will cause the pistons to force the new-moulded bricks, with their pallet or board under them, severally up the mould.
1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. II. 1599/2 Pallet,..7. (Clay.) a. A board on which a newly molded brick is carried away to the hack.
1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. II. 1595/2 Page,..2. The track carrying the pallets, which support the newly molded bricks, and on which they are slipped to the off-bearing boy..at the end.
1937 Amer. Home Apr. 138/2 My ‘green’ or uncured bricks could not be handled without distorting their accurate shapes. So I had either to provide smooth boards for ‘pallets’ or work on a table.
1996 Repository-Canton (Ohio) (Nexis) 1 Jan. b1 A 5-foot long wooden pallet is laid on top of the tray and then the pallet and mold are flipped.
c. A portable platform on which goods can be moved, stacked, or stored, especially with the aid of a forklift truck; a tray or container for packing and conveying goods.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > container or package for goods > [noun] > pallet
pallet1921
1921 R. V. Wright et al. Material Handling Cycl. 97 Pallet, a flat platform..used to pile material on.
1948 P.O. Telecommunications Jrnl. 1 iv. 119/2 A pallet is a double-faced wooden or metal platform with a space between the top and bottom faces significantly large to permit the entry of the forks of a forklift truck.
1961 Times 10 June 11/6 Tomatoes..packed, 120 at a time, into ‘pallets’ or metal trays supplied by British Railways.
1986 C. Culpin Farm Machinery (ed. 11) viii. 126/2 The bags are generally laid flat and stacked three bags high on the pallets.
2002 Manch. Evening News (Nexis) 17 Apr. 3 Over 100,000 large plastic pallets used for delivering bread caught fire at the Allied Bakery, in Bredbury.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > ornamental art and craft > gilding and silvering > [noun] > gilding > equipment
pallet1728
tip1815
mordant1825
cushion1837
mop1838
mixtion1890
1728 E. Chambers Cycl. Pallet, in Gilding, is an Instrument made of a Squirrel's Tail; used to take up the Gold Leaves from the Pillow, to apply and extend 'em on the Matter to be gilt.
6. Zoology. Either of a pair of calcareous plugs or lids at the entrance of the siphon tube of a shipworm or related bivalve mollusc. Cf. earlier palette n. 3(a).
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1851 W. Stimpson in Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. 4 113 The pallets are of an angular ovate form.
1888 Encycl. Brit. XXIII. 184/2 A thick muscular ring terminates this region of the body, and bears two calcareous plates shaped like spades or battledores... These calcareous plates are called pallets (Fr. palmules).
1901 E. Step Shell Life ix. 171 At the mouth of this tube the animal has developed a pair of accessory valves (known as pallets) in the shape of paddles.
1994 E. E. Ruppert & R. D. Barnes Invertebr. Zool. (ed. 6) x. 451/2 The long, delicate siphons open at the surface of the wood, and the burrow entrance is plugged by calcareous pallets when the siphons are retracted.
7. Each of the series of plates or scoops in a chain-pump by which the material is lifted.
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1874 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. I. 521/1 Another of Perronet's chain-pumps..was worked by horse-power... The pallets acted as buckets, and passed at the rate of 9,660 per hour.
1965 J. Needham Sci. & Civilisation in China ii. 55 Machines such as the square-pallet chain-pump.
1988 UNESCO Courier (Nexis) Oct. 13 It [sc. the chain-pump] consists of an endless circulating chain bearing square pallets which hold water, earth, or sand.
8. Bookbinding. A tool for impressing letters or designs on the cover of a book, consisting of a metal block mounted on a handle and having the letters, etc., engraved upon it, or the required types set in it.
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society > communication > book > manufacture or production of books > book-binding > bookbinding equipment > [noun] > tools
plough1580
fillet1641
roll1656
paper-folder1781
stamp1811
backing-hammer1818
bookstamp1819
lettering tool1833
book cutter1850
roller1852
hand letter1862
pallet1875
wagon1875
stop1880
jigger1883
gouge1885
guinea-edge1890
marbler1890
panel stamp1893
saddle stitcher1944
1875 R. Hunt & F. W. Rudler Ure's Dict. Arts (ed. 7) I. 425 The tools..whether single letters or figures, or ‘pallets’ (that is, the title of a book, &c., cut in a single metal block) are mounted on wooden handles, and applied before use to a gas burner, in order to obtain the requisite heat.
1880 J. W. Zaehnsdorf Art of Bookbinding xxii. 114 The lines impressed on the back must now have their gloss given to them. This is done by giggering the pallets over them.
1946 E. Diehl Bookbinding ii. xxiv. 361 Lettering may be done on the back of a book either with single letters, each put in a handle like small, flowered tools, or with type set in a type holder, or pallet.
1996 Chicago Tribune (Nexis) 28 July 18 c A stamping pallet, the device that presses the type onto a book cover.
9. Masonry. A piece of wood built into a wall so that joinery can be fixed to it. Cf. plug n. 2c.
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1909 Webster's New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. Pallet, a flat piece of wood laid in a wall to furnish a means of securing more firmly any woodwork that is to be fastened to the wall.
1957 N.Z. Timber Jrnl. Mar. 52/1 Fixings, certain items like plugs, pallets, nogs and backings used to fix joinery.
1992 A. Jackson & D. Day Home Restoration Man. 249/1 Pallets, wooden plugs built into masonry joints on each side of a door or window opening to serve as fixing points for the frame.
Compounds
C1.
a. (In sense 2.)† pallet-wheel n. Obsolete
pallet frame n.
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1825 ‘J. Nicholson’ Operative Mechanic 521 That part of the pallet frame..in which is set the stone for receiving the action or impulse of the small pin teeth, is formed into a rectangular shape.
1995 P. Woodward My Own Right Time iii. 23 When the pendulum swings, the pallet frame must swing with it.
pallet staff n.
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1884 F. J. Britten Watch & Clockmakers' Handbk. (new ed.) 226 The pallet staff holes are found to wear very much if not jewelled.
1900 Times 14 Nov. 14/3 These parts [of a watch] consisted of the..pallet staff, steel barrel wheel, [etc.].
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1793 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 83 88 The index that is carried round immediately by the pendulum, viz. on the same arbor with the pallet wheel.
1846 Sci. Amer. 17 Oct. 28/2 The verge is kept constantly adjusted to the teeth of the pallet wheel.
1863 Chambers's Encycl. V. 422/1 The pendulum..hangs down behind the pallet-wheel.
b. (In sense 3.)† pallet-wire n. Obsolete
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1852 tr. J. J. Seidel Organ & its Constr. 51 Muller has tried to put all the palate-wires, belonging to one manual, into one common hole.
c. (In sense 4c.)
pallet trailer n.
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1971 Power Farming Mar. 13/2 Five-ton high-lift pallet trailers were used to transport the carrots from the field to the packing station.
2000 Augusta (Georgia) Chronicle (Nexis) 29 Sept. c3 The victim..and another man were riding in a pallet trailer.
C2. † pallet-fish n. Obsolete rare = paddlefish n.† pallet-moulding n. Brickmaking Obsolete a process in which each brick is turned out on to a pallet as it is moulded, the mould being sanded to prevent adhesion of the clay.† pallet tail n. Obsolete each of the rocking arms which bear the pallets in certain escapements.
pallet arbor n. Clockmaking an arbor on which a pallet is fixed.
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the world > time > instruments for measuring time > clock > [noun] > part(s) of
nut1428
peise1428
plumbc1450
Jack1498
clockwork1516
larum1542
Jack of the clockhouse1563
watch-wheel1568
work1570
plummeta1578
Jack of the clock1581
snail-cam1591
snail-work1591
pointer1596
quarter jack1604
mainspring1605
winder1606
notch-wheel1611
fusee1622
count-wheel1647
jack-wheel1647
frame1658
arbor1659
balance1660
fuse1674
hour-figure1675
stop1675
pallet1676
regulator1676
cock1678
movement1678
detent1688
savage1690
clock1696
pinwheel1696
starred wheel1696
swing-wheel1696
warning-wheel1696
watch1696
watch-part1696
hoop-wheel1704
hour-wheel1704
snail1714
step-wheel1714
tide-work1739
train1751
crutch1753
cannon pinion1764
rising board1769
remontoire1774
escapement1779
clock jack1784
locking plate1786
scapement1789
motion work1795
anchor escapement1798
scape1798
star-wheel1798
recoil escapement1800
recoiling pallet1801
recoiling scapement1801
cannon1802
hammer-tail1805
recoiling escapement1805
bottle jack1810
renovating spring1812
quarter-boy1815
pin tooth1817
solar wheel1819
impulse-teeth1825
pendulum wheel1825
pallet arbor1826
rewinder1826
rack hook1829
snail-wheel1831
quarter bell1832
tow1834
star pulley1836
watch train1838
clock train1843
raising-piece1843
wheelwork1843
gravity escapement1850
jumper1850
vertical escapement1850
time train1853
pin pallet1860
spade1862
dead well1867
stop-work1869
ringer1873
strike-or-silent1875
warning-piece1875
guard-pin1879
pendulum cock1881
warning-lever1881
beat-pin1883
fusee-piece1884
fusee-snail1884
shutter1884
tourbillion1884
tumbler1884
virgule1884
foliot1899
grasshopper1899
grasshopper escapement1899
trunk1899
pin lever1908
clock spring1933
1826 T. Reid Treat. Clock & Watch Making viii. 205 The upper pivots of the pallet arbors..run in these cocks.
1948 A. L. Rawlings Sci. Clocks & Watches (ed. 2) v. 82 The important features being the shape of the impulse faces and their distance from the pallet arbor in comparison with the radius of the scape wheel.
1999 Clocks 22 42/1 Having two escape wheels brought the pallet arbor closer to the escape arbor, a factor necessitated by the overall design.
pallet board n. (a) Brickmaking = sense 4b; (b) = sense 4c.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > brick-making equipment > [noun] > board for carrying brick
pallet board1664
planchet1764
pallet1839
1664 in D. Yaxley Researcher's Gloss. Hist. Documents E. Anglia (2003) 145 They carryed straw sand Bricketables formes pallad boards to the Brickell.
1841 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 4 341/1 He..shakes the brick dexterously out of the mould on to a flat piece of board, (a pallet board).
1875 R. Hunt & F. W. Rudler Ure's Dict. Arts (ed. 7) I. 529 This operation is repeated each time that a pallet-board comes under the hopper.
1943 H. E. Stocker Materials handling xi. 112 The space between upper and lower pallet boards should be about 4 inches.
1984 J. Seymour Forgotten Arts (1985) 150 (caption) The bricks have to be carried from the pallet board where they have been placed after moulding to the hack or drying platform.
1990 J. Bykofsky Transportation Corps xi. 503 Equipment, including..cargo nets, pallet boards, and floating cranes, were shipped in by both the Army and the Navy.
pallet box n. (a) Music a box or chest forming part of the windchest of an organ, containing the pallets corresponding to one keyboard; (b) a box designed for use with a pallet or having an integral pallet (sense 4c).
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1904 N.E.D. at Pallet sb.3 Pallet-box.
1914 G. A. Audsley Art Organ-building II. xxiv. 214 The pallet-box..is an air-tight box which is attached to the under face of the wind-chest frame.
1969 Science 21 Nov. 971/1 Machines such as tractor forklifts, straddle carriers for pallet boxes, and rotary dumpers.
1980 New Grove Dict. Music XIV. 143/2 The ‘pallet box’ is strictly the substructure of the wind-chest in which the row of pallets, one for each key in the compass, is housed.
2003 Amer. Metal Market (Nexis) 10 Mar. 2 Each truckload contains 10 pallet boxes, with each box having 120 bags containing 25 pounds of vanadium each.
pallet-eye n. Music (in an organ) a loop of wire at one end of a pallet to which the pull-down wire is attached.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > keyboard instrument > organ > [noun] > pallet > parts of
pull-down1852
pallet-eye1855
1855 E. J. Hopkins Organ, its Hist. & Constr. v. 29 A small loop of wire..is inserted into the moving end of the pallet.., called the pallet-eye.
1909 G. L. Miller Recent Revol. in Organ Building (1913) ii. 15 The wires called pull-downs..are attached to a loop of wire called the pallet-eye, fastened to the moveable end of the pallet.
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the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > subclass Actinopterygii > [noun] > infraclass Chondrostei > order Acipenseriformes > member of family Polydontidae
pallet-fish1686
paddlefish1807
spoonbill1882
spoonbill cat1882
1686 tr. Relation Invasion Florida xxiv. 121 We caught another sort of fish also, called Pexe-palla, the Palat-fish; the head of it is covered with a kind of an elbow-hood, the upper point whereof is shaped like a Palet or Lingel.
pallet leather n. Music (in an organ) the soft leather with which the inner surface of a pallet is faced.
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1904 N.E.D. at Pallet sb.3 Pallet-leather.
1914 G. A. Audsley Art Organ-building II. xxiv. 219 The leather used is a stout and soft sheepskin..known in the trade as ‘pallet-leather’.
2001 D. Gwynn Historic Organ Conservation x. 75 Escaping wind..may be visible, perhaps in the form of..gaps between the pallet leather and the bars.
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society > occupation and work > industry > manufacturing processes > brick and tile making > [noun] > specific processes
skintling1807
pallet-moulding1867
mullitization1939
1867 Chambers's Information for People (new ed.) 326/1 In pallet-moulding, one mould alone is used.
1872 Manufacturer & Builder 4 130/3 In molding bricks there are two methods, the wet or slop-molding, and the dry sand or palletmolding.
1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. II. 1599/2 In pallet-molding the molds are usually sanded; in slop-molding they are wetted.
pallet spring n. †(a) Music (in an organ) a spring attached to a pallet (obsolete); †(b) a spring regulating the movement of a pallet (sense 2) (obsolete).
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1703 in Jrnl. Brit. Inst. Organ Stud. (1987) 11 70 The said Bermondsey Organ hath all along been extreamely defective and never free from some disorder..either from the Basenes of ye mettall..or the weakness of the Pallet springs.
1876 W. H. Preece & J. Sivewright Telegraphy 84 The wheel has fifteen teeth cut on its circumference; its play is regulated by two small pallets..and two small steel pallet-springs.
2001 D. Gwynn Historic Organ Conservation x. 79 Do not replace the pallet springs or pulldowns unless the corrosion is advanced enough to affect the tension.
pallet stone n. Clockmaking a jewel or similar hard stone forming the surface of a pallet (sense 2).
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1873 Amer. Cycl. IV. 706/1 The polishing of the leaves of pinions..and the grinding of the faces of the pallet stones to their proper angles.
1909 Webster's New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. Add. Pallet stone, a hard stone or jewel forming the rubbing face of a pallet to diminish friction and reduce wear.
1993 Amer. Heritage Nov. 34/2 Hard, smooth, and corrosion-resistant, jewels are useful materials for bushings at the ends of pivots and pallet stones on the escapement mechanism.
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1883 E. Beckett Rudim. Treat. Clocks (ed. 7) 131 In very large clocks the pallet tails are too thick to bend for adjustment of the beat, and these eccentric beat pins are used.
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palletn.4
/ˈpalᵻt/, U.S. /ˈpælət/ Heraldry.
An ordinary resembling a pale (pale n.1 6), but of half its breadth.
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society > communication > indication > insignia > heraldic devices collective > charge: device on shield > [noun] > charge of simplest or commonest kind > vertical band in middle of shield > of half breadth
pallet1572
1572 J. Bossewell Wks. Armorie 12 But it [sc. the Pale] may be diminished, as from a Paile to a Pallet which is ye halfe of the Paile.
1661 S. Morgan Sphere of Gentry ii. iii. 33 The pale, whose content is the third part of the whole field, and is divided again into the Pallet, which is half the pale, and the Endors which is half the Pallet.
1766 ‘M. A. Porny’ Elem. Heraldry (1787) iv. 60 The Pale... Its Diminutives are the Pallet, which is the half of the Pale, and the Endorse, which is the fourth part of a Pale.
1863 C. Boutell Man. Heraldry iii. 21 The arms of Raymond, Count of Provence—or, 3 pallets gules.
1988 T. Woodcock & J. M. Robinson Oxf. Guide Heraldry iv. 59 The diminutive of a pale is a pallet, and this term tends to be used in preference to pale when two or more are shown.
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† palletn.5
Obsolete.
A vessel of a definite measure (probably four ounces) used to receive the blood in bloodletting; the quantity contained in such a vessel.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medical appliances or equipment > other surgical equipment > [noun] > vessel to receive blood
pallet1627
1627 G. Hakewill Apologie iii. v. 205 A..Surgeon..reports that he drew from a patient..in foure dayes twenty seven pallets, euery pallet..containing three ounces and more.
1646 Edinb. Test. LXI. f. 358, in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue at Pellet Aucht braisine & tin baissines twa pellets four stopes.
1826 Lancet Apr. 21/1 She was bled from the arm to the extent of two palettes and a half.
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† palletadj.
Obsolete. rare.
Of a light colour between red and white; pale red.
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the world > matter > colour > named colours > red or redness > [adjective] > pale red or pink
incarnatea1533
fleshy1555
incarnation1562
pallet1565
peach1583
bepurfurate1584
blush1597
carnation1598
peachy1599
peach-coloured1600
pink-coloured1600
incarnadine1605
pink1607
blush-coloured1626
blushy1626
gridelin1652
carnationeda1658
pinky1661
carneous1673
peach blossom1702
flesh-coloured1703
flesh-colour1711
mushroom-coloured1770
salmon-coloured1776
pinkish1785
salmon1786
blush-tinted1818
flesh-red1819
naturelle1873
flesh-pink1882
lilac-pink1882
pinksome1913
nude1922
magnolia-pink1931
salmony1935
magnolia1963
1565 T. Cooper Thesaurus Heluus color, a pallet colour, or a fleash colour of white and redde.
?1590–1 J. Burel Discription Queens Entry Edinb. in Poems sig. M Vpon thair brest..The Rubie pallet and Th'opall, Togither with the Amatist.
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Vin baillet, a pallet, or pale Claret, wine.
1632 R. Sherwood Dict. in R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues (new ed.) Pallet wine, vin baillet, vin paillet.
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palletv.1
/ˈpalᵻt/, U.S. /ˈpælət/ rare.
transitive (chiefly in passive). To bed (someone) down on or as on a pallet. Also intransitive.
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1821 C. Webbe Summer 17 But thou wert fled, Why gone I know, and where thou'rt palletted: On Penury's bed of straw thou may'st be found.
1878 Amer. Missionary 32 14/2 The infants were passed from one to another as nurses grew tired, or were quietly palleted on the floor.
1921 G. C. Shedd Lady of Mystery House xix. 263 He and I could pallet down on the porch.
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palletv.2
/ˈpalᵻt/, U.S. /ˈpælət/ transitive. To place, stack, or transport (goods, etc.) on a pallet or pallets. Cf. earlier palleting n.2, palleted adj.
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1989 Frozen & Chilled Foods Nov. 31 The boxes are loaded onto the belts at the start of the picking operation, and when they are taken off, palleted, and put into the trucks at the other.
1994 Rocky Mountain News (Denver) (Nexis) 8 May 1 c Cargo handlers, who track supplies with a bar code system, get the supplies palleted and delivered to each station on time.
2002 B&T Weekly (Austral.) (Nexis) 1 Nov. Capilano Honey, for example, is produced by Australian beekeepers, packaged for retail and palleted locally, before being shipped to more than 30 countries around the world.
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