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