noun

1. a wooden tool consisting of a flat blade with a handle; esp., such a tool used by potters for smoothing and rounding
2. palette (sense )
3. a low, portable platform, usually double-faced, on which materials are stacked for storage or transportation, as in a warehouse
4. Bookbinding a tool used for stamping letters on the binding of a book
5. Mech. a part of a machine that changes back-and-forth motion to circular motion, or vice versa, by engaging the teeth of a ratchet wheel; pawl; click; esp., any of the clicks or pawls in a clock or watch escapement, which regulate the speed by releasing one tooth of a ratchet wheel at each swing of the pendulum or turn of the balance wheel

Etymology: Fr palette: see palette

noun

Etymology: ME pailet < MFr paillet < OFr paille, straw < L palea, chaff: see palea

noun

Etymology: ME palet < MFr, dim. of pal, pale