pallet
/ˈpælɪt/US/ˈpælɪt/
pallet noun: a bed of loose straw. Also the archaic form of palette.
Noun (1)
pallet (plural pallets)
- A bed of loose straw.
- Near-synonym: strawbed (mattress sense)
- That good old blind bibber of Helicon I wot well, came a begging to one of the chiefe citties of Greece, & promiſed them vaſt corpulent volumes of immortallity, if they would beſtowe vpon him but a ſlender outbrothers annuity of muttõ & broth, and a pallet to ſleep on; and with deriſion they...1599, [Thomas] Nashe, Nashes Lenten Stuffe, […], London: […] [Thomas Judson and Valentine Simmes] for N[icholas] L[ing] and C[uthbert] B[urby] […], →OCLC, page 3
- Synonyms:
- strawbed
- Any makeshift bedding place.
- Near-synonym: scratcher (slang)
- Synonyms:
- scratcher
- A portable platform, usually designed to be easily moved by a forklift, on which goods can be stacked, for transport or storage.
- Synonyms:
- skid
Verb
pallet (third-person singular simple present pallets, present participle palleting, simple past and past participle palleted)
- To load or stack (goods) onto pallets.
Noun (2)
pallet (plural pallets)
Noun (3)
pallet (plural pallets)
- 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.
- the swing wheel […]is represented as being locked by one of its teeth on the nib or detent part of the right hand pallet, and the moment when the wheel is unlocked, the tooth at the left hand pallet is ready to press forward and raise up that pallet1832, Thomas Reid, Treatise on Clock and Watch Making
- 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.
Noun (4)
pallet (plural pallets)
- A Parisian measure of blood let; a cup containing three ounces, formerly used by surgeons.
Also used as
pallet is also the archaic form of palette.
pallet meaning in Tagalog
pallet in Tagalog
- portable platform
- paleta
Examples of pallet in a sentence
- Get those forks tilted back more or you're gonna lose that pallet!
- These modular boxes can be interstacked and will fit 40" x 48" and 48" x 48" pallets.
- Drop the tailgate, please, and I'll load these pallets.
Synonyms of pallet
Forms of pallet
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | pallets |
| alternative form | palet |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | pallets |
| present participle | palleting |
| past participle | palleted |
| past | palleted |
Origin of pallet
From Middle English paillet, from Anglo-Norman paillete (“bundle of straw”), from Old French paille (“straw, chaff”), from Latin palea (“chaff”).
Said to be from Middle English *palet, from Middle French *palet, from Middle French pal (“pale”), ultimately from Latin palla (“a strip of cloth”).
Learned borrowing from French palette.
Words formed from pallet
Phrases with pallet
Words that rhyme with pallet
Questions about pallet
- What does pallet mean?
- Pallet means a bed of loose straw.
- What is pallet in Tagalog?
- Pallet in Tagalog is paleta. See Pallet meaning in Tagalog.
- What part of speech is pallet?
- Pallet can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce pallet?
- Pallet is pronounced /ˈpælɪt/ (UK).
- What is the plural of pallet?
- The plural of pallet is pallets.
Words near pallet in the dictionary
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