(Pottery) A board on which a newly molded brick is conveyed to the hack.
(Mach.) 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.
(Mus.) In the organ, a valve between the wind chest and the mouth of a pipe or row of pipes.
(Zoöl.) 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, -- formerly used by surgeons.
A low movable platform used for temporary storage of objects so that they can be conveniently moved; it is commonly made of wooden boards, about 4 inches high, and typically has openings in the side into which the blades of a fork-lift truck may be inserted so as to lift and move the pallet and the objects on it.
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 click or pawl for driving a ratchet wheel.
One of the series of disks or pistons in the chain pump.
