Definition of "pallet"

pallet¹

/ˈpælɪt/

noun
plural pallets
1. A portable platform, usually designed to be easily moved by a forklift, on which goods can be stacked, for transport or storage.
verb
third-person singular simple present pallets, present participle palleting, simple past and past participle palleted
1. (transitive) To load or stack (goods) onto pallets.

pallet²

/ˈpælɪt/

noun
plural pallets
1. A straw bed.
  Quotations
  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 reiected him, [...]
  1599, [Thomas] Nashe, Nashes Lenten Stuffe, […], London: […] [Thomas Judson and Valentine Simmes] for N[icholas] L[ing] and C[uthbert] B[urby] […], page 3
  Weary, but too anxious for sleep, Beatrice gazed round the miserable little room: the walls, from which the plaster was mouldering—the cobwebs, that for years had been gathering on the rafters of the roof—the window, or rather opening, for window there was none, but a wooden shutter, which kept creaking backwards and forwards—the floor, discoloured with dirt—the wretched pallet—all struck her with a sick shudder of loathing and misery.
  1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Romance and Reality. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], pages 222–223
2. (by extension) A makeshift bed.

pallet³

/ˈpælɪt/

noun
plural pallets
1. (heraldry) A narrow vertical stripe, narrower than a pale. Diminutive of pale.

pallet⁴

/ˈpælɪt/

noun
plural pallets
1. (painting) Archaic form of palette.
  Quotations
  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!"
  1798, Robert Southey, The Pious Painter
  For example, let a painter's pallet be suspended from the thumb-hole, as in the figure […]
  1860, Chambers's Information for the People, volume 1, page 203
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. (gilding) An instrument used to take up gold leaf from the pillow, and to apply it.
5. (gilding) A tool for gilding the backs of books over the bands.
6. (brickmaking) A board on which a newly moulded brick is conveyed to the hack.
7. (engineering) A click or pawl for driving a ratchet wheel.
8. (engineering) One of the series of disks or pistons in the chain pump.
9. (horology) 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.
  Quotations
  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 pallet
  1832, Thomas Reid, Treatise on Clock and Watch Making
10. (music) In the organ, a valve between the wind chest and the mouth of a pipe or row of pipes.
11. (zoology) One of a pair of shelly plates that protect the siphon tubes of certain bivalves, such as the Teredo.
12. A cup containing three ounces, formerly used by surgeons.

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