Pallet

Pronunciation

• RP IPA: /ˈpælɪt/
• US IPA: /ˈpælɪt/, /ˈpælÉ™t/
• Australia IPA: /ˈpælÉ™t/
• Rhymes: -ælɪt
• Homophones: palate, palette, pallette

From Middle English palet, from Anglo-Norman palete, from Old Norse pallr

Full definition of pallet

Noun

1. a portable platform, usually designed to be easily moved by a forklift, on which goods can be stacked, for transport or storage.
2. (military) A flat base for combining stores or carrying a single item to form a unit load for handling, transportation, and storage by materials handling equipmentJoint Publication 1-02 U.S. Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms; 12 April 2001 (As Amended Through 14 April 2006)..
3. (military) (DOD only) 463L pallet – An 88” x 108” aluminum flat base used to facilitate the upload and download of aircraft.

Derived terms

• palletizer

From the Middle English paillet, from Anglo-Norman paillette ("bundle of straw"), from Old French paille ("straw, chaff"), from Latin palea ("chaff")

Noun

1. A straw bed.
2. (By extension from above) A makeshift bed.

Latin palla: to cut; hence a strip of cloth. The diminutive of the pale.

Noun

1. (heraldiccharge) A narrow vertical strip.

Noun

1. (painting)
• Robert SoutheyThe 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!"
• 1860, Chambers's Information for the People (volume 1, page 203)For example, let a painter's pallet be suspended from the thumb-hole, as in the figure ...
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.
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.

Anagrams

• L-plate