pallet
IPA: pˈæɫʌt
noun
- 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.]
verb
- (transitive) To load or stack (goods) onto pallets.
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Examples of "pallet" in Sentences
- The pallet was filled with packages.
- EDO is the program of which the pallet was part.
- The box length is parallel to the pallet length.
- One of the rollers is driven to rotate the pallet.
- The wheel is said to be locked on the exit pallet.
- It is used for pallets, rough floors, pulpwood and firewood.
- Eventually, boards were fastened to the bottom to create the pallet.
- Apparatus are provided for retaining the pallet as the slat is removed.
- The latch is then advanced to the work station, and engages the pallet.
- A wooden pallet forms a support for the frame and the bottom of the bag.
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