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

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

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