- A small and mean bed; a bed of straw. - Same as Palette. - A wooden implement used by potters, crucible makers, etc.,
for forming, beating, and rounding their works. It is oval, round, and
of other forms. - A potter's wheel. - An instrument used to take up gold leaf from the pillow,
and to apply it. - A tool for gilding the backs of books over the bands. - A board on which a newly molded brick is conveyed to the
hack. - A click or pawl for driving a ratchet wheel. - One of the series of disks or pistons in the chain pump. - 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. - In the organ, a valve between the wind chest and the mouth
of a pipe or row of pipes. - One of a pair of shelly plates that protect the siphon
tubes of certain bivalves, as the Teredo. See Illust. of Teredo. - A cup containing three ounces, -- /ormerly used by
surgeons.
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