2. (Anc. Armor) One of the plates covering the points of
junction at the bend of the shoulders and elbows.
--Fairholt.
3. (Mech.) A breastplate for a breast drill.
{Palette knife}, a knife with a very flexible steel blade and
no cutting edge, rounded at the end, used by painters to
mix colors on the grinding slab or palette.
{To set the palette} (Paint.), to lay upon it the required
pigments in a certain order, according to the intended use
of them in a picture. --Fairholt.
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. (Zo["o]l.) 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.