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palet

palet is the alternative form of pallet.

Meaning of pallet

Noun (1)

pallet (plural pallets)

  1. A bed of loose straw.
    • Near-synonym: strawbed (mattress sense)
    Synonyms:
    strawbed
  2. (broadly) Any makeshift bedding place.
    • Near-synonym: scratcher (slang)
    Synonyms:
    scratcher
  3. A portable platform, usually designed to be easily moved by a forklift, on which goods can be stacked, for transport or storage.
    Synonyms:
    skid

Noun (2)

pallet (plural pallets)

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

Noun (3)

pallet (plural pallets)

  1. A wooden implement, often oval or round, used by potters, crucible makers, etc., for forming, beating, and rounding their works.
  2. A potter's wheel.

See all 16 meanings of pallet

Forms of palet

pluralpalets

Origin of palet

From pale + -et.

Questions about palet

What is palet the alternative form of?
Palet is the alternative form of pallet.

Words near palet in the dictionary

  1. palestrical
  2. Palestrina
  3. Palestrinian
  4. Palestro
  5. palesy
  6. palet
  7. paleta
  8. paletas
  9. paleth
  10. paletot
  11. paletots

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Adapted from Wiktionary: palet (page history and authors); pallet (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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