pallet

Meanings

1. A bed of loose straw.
2. Any makeshift bedding place.
3. A portable platform, usually designed to be easily moved by a forklift, on which goods can be stacked, for transport or storage.

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

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

1. Archaic form of palette.
2. A wooden implement, often oval or round, used by potters, crucible makers, etc., for forming, beating, and rounding their works.
3. A potter's wheel.
4. An instrument used to take up gold leaf from the pillow, and to apply it.
5. A tool for gilding the backs of books over the bands.
6. A board on which a newly moulded brick is conveyed to the hack.
7. A click or pawl for driving a ratchet wheel.
8. One of the series of disks or pistons in the chain pump.
9. 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.
10. In the organ, a valve between the wind chest and the mouth of a pipe or row of pipes.
11. One of a pair of shelly plates that protect the siphon tubes of certain bivalves, such as the Teredo.

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

Etymology

From Middle English paillet, from Anglo-Norman paillete (“bundle of straw”), from Old French paille (“straw, chaff”), from Latin palea (“chaff”).

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