pallet

/ˈpælət//ˈpælɪt/

noun

  1. 1

    A portable platform, usually designed to be easily moved by a forklift, on which goods can be stacked, for transport or storage.

  2. 2

    A flat base for combining stores or carrying a single item to form a unit load for handling, transportation, and storage by materials handling equipment.

  3. 3

    (DOD only) 463L pallet – An 88” x 108” aluminum flat base used to facilitate the upload and download of aircraft.

verb

  1. 1

    To load or stack (goods) onto pallets.

noun

  1. 1

    A straw bed.

  2. 2

    (by extension) A makeshift bed.

noun

  1. 1

    Paleness; pallor.

noun

  1. 1

    A wooden stake; a picket.

  2. 2

    Fence made from wooden stake; palisade.

  3. 3

    (by extension) Limits, bounds (especially before of).

  4. 4

    The bounds of morality, good behaviour or judgment in civilized company, in the phrase beyond the pale.

  5. 5

    A vertical band down the middle of a shield.

  6. 6

    A territory or defensive area within a specific boundary or under a given jurisdiction.

  7. 7

    The jurisdiction (territorial or otherwise) of an authority.

  8. 8

    A cheese scoop.

  9. 9

    A shore for bracing a timber before it is fastened.

noun

  1. 1

    A thin board on which a painter lays and mixes colours.

  2. 2

    The range of colors in a given work or item or body of work.

  3. 3

    A visual selection of colours, tools, commands, etc.

  4. 4

    A plate of armour covering the points of junction at the bend of the shoulders and elbows.

  5. 5

    A plate against which a person presses their breast to give force to a hand-operated drill.

noun

  1. 1

    A wooden implement, often oval or round, used by potters, crucible makers, etc., for forming, beating, and rounding their works.

  2. 2

    A potter's wheel.

  3. 3

    (gilding) An instrument used to take up gold leaf from the pillow, and to apply it.

  4. 4

    (gilding) A tool for gilding the backs of books over the bands.

  5. 5

    (brickmaking) A board on which a newly moulded brick is conveyed to the hack.

  6. 6

    A click or pawl for driving a ratchet wheel.

  7. 7

    One of the series of disks or pistons in the chain pump.

  8. 8

    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.

  9. 9

    In the organ, a valve between the wind chest and the mouth of a pipe or row of pipes.

  10. 10

    One of a pair of shelly plates that protect the siphon tubes of certain bivalves, such as the Teredo.

  11. 11

    A cup containing three ounces, formerly used by surgeons.

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