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Definition of Pallets
1. pallet [v] - See also: pallet
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pallets
Literary usage of Pallets
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Scientific American Reference Book by Albert Allis Hopkins, Alexander Russell Bond (1913)
"the pallets and oscillate the lever, which turns™ the balance wheel alternately
in opposite directions. 104. VERGE ESCAPEMENT.—A form of escapement used in ..."
2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"The pallets are not in the »ros plane, but one is behind and the other in front
of the wheel, with one stop pointing backwards and the other forwards to ..."
3. Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by Charles Knight (1838)
"In Graham's dead- boat escapement the distance between the centre of motion p of
the pallets and the centre of the scape-wheel is equal to one diameter of ..."
4. Modern Mechanism: Exhibiting the Latest Progress in Machines, Motors, and by D. Appleton and Company (1892)
"Here one or more men, as the capacity of the machine may require, lift the loaded
pallets from the carrier to the car. When the car is full it is ready to ..."
5. London Encyclopaedia; Or, Universal Dictionary of Science, Art, Literature by Thomas Tegg (1829)
"That the rests of the pallets are correct portions of circles ; the centre of
which circles is the centre of motion of the axis of the verge, ..."
6. A Rudimentary Treatise on Clocks and Watches and Bells by Edmund Beckett Grimthorpe (1874)
"Here too, as in the pallets, and indeed in every possible place, ... Length of
pallets.—A French clock-maker in the Exhibition of 1851 had an apparatus for ..."
7. A Treatise on Heraldry, British and Foreign: With English and French Glossaries by John Woodward (1896)
"Sable, two pallets wavy ermine, are the arms of CLARKE of Kent. A coat charged
with three pallets is a frequent bearing both at home and abroad. ..."
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