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pallet

noun
/ˈpælɪt/UK/ˈpælɪt/US/ˈpælət/

Etymology

Said to be from Middle English *palet, from Middle French *palet, from Middle French pal (“pale”), ultimately from Latin palla (“a strip of cloth”).

  1. derived from palea
  2. derived from paille
  3. derived from paillete
  4. inherited from paillet

Definitions

  1. A bed of loose straw.

    • Near-synonym: strawbed (mattress sense)

  2. Any makeshift bedding place.

    • Near-synonym: scratcher (slang)

  3. A portable platform, usually designed to be easily moved by a forklift, on which goods…

    A portable platform, usually designed to be easily moved by a forklift, on which goods can be stacked, for transport or storage.

  4. ›+ 14 more definitions

    1. To load or stack (goods) onto pallets.

    2. A narrow vertical stripe, narrower than a pale. Diminutive of pale.

    3. Archaic form of palette.

      • The Old Dragon fled when the wonder he spied, / And cursed his own fruitless endeavor; / While the Painter call'd after his rage to deride, / Shook his pallet and brushes in triumph, and cried, / "I'll paint thee more ugly than ever!"
      • For example, let a painter's pallet be suspended from the thumb-hole, as in the figure […]

    4. A wooden implement, often oval or round, used by potters, crucible makers, etc., for…

      A wooden implement, often oval or round, used by potters, crucible makers, etc., for forming, beating, and rounding their works.

    5. A potter's wheel.

    6. An instrument used to take up gold leaf from the pillow, and to apply it.

    7. A tool for gilding the backs of books over the bands.

    8. A board on which a newly moulded brick is conveyed to the hack.

    9. A click or pawl for driving a ratchet wheel.

    10. One of the series of disks or pistons in the chain pump.

    11. One of the pieces or levers connected with the pendulum of a clock, or the balance of a…

      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.

    12. In the organ, a valve between the wind chest and the mouth of a pipe or row of pipes.

    13. One of a pair of shelly plates that protect the siphon tubes of certain bivalves, such as…

      One of a pair of shelly plates that protect the siphon tubes of certain bivalves, such as the Teredo.

    14. A Parisian measure of blood let

      A Parisian measure of blood let; a cup containing three ounces, formerly used by surgeons.

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Derived

cargo pallet, GMA pallet, palletainer, palletisation, palletise, palletization, palletize, pallet jack, palletlike, pallet picking, pallet pump, pallet truck, repallet

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA