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pallet
/ˈpælɪt/
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What does pallet mean?
noun
- A bed of loose straw.
- Any makeshift bedding place.
- A portable platform, usually designed to be easily moved by a forklift, on which goods can be stacked, for transport or storage.
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verb
- To load or stack (goods) onto pallets.
noun
- A narrow vertical stripe, narrower than a pale. Diminutive of pale.
- A wooden implement, often oval or round, used by potters, crucible makers, etc., for forming, beating, and rounding their works.
- 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 board on which a newly moulded brick is conveyed to the hack.
- A click or pawl for driving a ratchet wheel.
- One of the series of disks or pistons in the chain pump.
- 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.
- In the organ, a valve between the wind chest and the mouth of a pipe or row of pipes.
- One of a pair of shelly plates that protect the siphon tubes of certain bivalves, such as the Teredo.
- (archaic) Archaic form of palette.
- (historical, rare) A Parisian measure of blood let; a cup containing three ounces, formerly used by surgeons.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈpælɪt/
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There was no furniture save a little pallet bed, a small table, and a basketful of linen.
He is an inoffensive, good creature, but had rather ponder over a foreign gazette than a pallet.
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To dress in the dark, and eat in the dark, and stumble in darkness to his pallet, this is his usual lot.
The pallet on which M. Leblanc had been thrown was a sort of hospital bed, elevated on four coarse wooden legs, roughly hewn.
The cockpit was crowded with wounded and dying men, over whose bodies he was with some difficulty conveyed, and laid upon a pallet in the midshipmen's berth.