pallet

IPA: pˈæɫʌt

A portable platform, usually designed to be easily moved by a forklift, on which goods can be stacked, for transport or storage.
A straw bed.
(by extension) A makeshift bed.
(heraldry) A narrow vertical stripe, narrower than a pale. Diminutive of pale.
A wooden implement, often oval or round, used by potters, crucible makers, etc., for forming, beating, and rounding their works.
A potter's wheel.
(gilding) An instrument used to take up gold leaf from the pillow, and to apply it.
(gilding) A tool for gilding the backs of books over the bands.
(brickmaking) A board on which a newly moulded brick is conveyed to the hack.
(engineering) A click or pawl for driving a ratchet wheel.
(engineering) One of the series of disks or pistons in the chain pump.
(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.
(music) In the organ, a valve between the wind chest and the mouth of a pipe or row of pipes.
(zoology) One of a pair of shelly plates that protect the siphon tubes of certain bivalves, such as the Teredo.
A cup containing three ounces, formerly used by surgeons.
(painting) Archaic form of palette. [(painting) A thin board on which a painter lays and mixes colours.]

Examples of "pallet" in Sentences

Have a tiny sore on my upper pallet, is that a symptoms of swine flu?
Especially, a pallet is a wooden platform applied to load freight or cargo.
Commercial images are designed in the proper color pallet from the beginning.
Police estimated that each pallet is worth approximately $120,000 in retail value.
McCain already has: he and his wife adopted a girl with a cleft pallet from the country.
What kind of bed does the protagonist sleep in - pallet, featherbed, mattress and springs, antigravity plate?
The first thing I noticed under the pallet was a large snail shell that I could identify right away as Mesodon thyroidus, a common denizen of the forests around here.
Trust would still come very hardly to Liliwin, after all he had experienced in a short life, but the toys he had tucked away so tenderly under his pallet were a promise.
Watchmakers have long sought to compensate for gravity's effect on the most delicate parts of the escapement - namely the pallet fork, balance wheel and hairspring - to improve accuracy.