pallet knife

American  

noun

Cooking.

1. a small, flat utensil for picking up and handling pastry paste.

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pallet knife British  

noun

1. a variant spelling of palette knife

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Example Sentences

He paints quickly, applying thick strokes with a brush or pallet knife.

From Washington Times • Mar. 6, 2016

Put the butter into a good-sized saute or omelet pan; when hot, turn the ingredients into the pan, and smooth it down with a pallet knife.

From Many Ways for Cooking Eggs by Rorer, Sarah Tyson Heston

It is physically impossible, for instance, rightly to draw certain forms of the upper clouds with the brush; nothing will do it but the pallet knife with loaded white after the blue ground is prepared.

From Modern Painters Volume I (of V) by Ruskin, John