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