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Pallet   /pˈælət/   Listen
noun
pallet  n.  A small and mean bed; a bed of straw.


Pallet  n.  (Her.) A perpendicular band upon an escutcheon, one half the breadth of the pale.


Pallet  n.  
1.
(Paint.) Same as Palette.
2.
(Pottery)
(a)
A wooden implement used by potters, crucible makers, etc., for forming, beating, and rounding their works. It is oval, round, and of other forms.
(b)
A potter's wheel.
3.
(Gilding)
(a)
An instrument used to take up gold leaf from the pillow, and to apply it.
(b)
A tool for gilding the backs of books over the bands.
4.
(Brickmaking) A board on which a newly molded brick is conveyed to the hack.
5.
(Mach.)
(a)
A click or pawl for driving a ratchet wheel.
(b)
One of the series of disks or pistons in the chain pump.
6.
(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.
7.
(Mus.) In the organ, a valve between the wind chest and the mouth of a pipe or row of pipes.
8.
(Zool.) One of a pair of shelly plates that protect the siphon tubes of certain bivalves, as the Teredo.
9.
A cup containing three ounces, formerly used by surgeons.
10.
A low movable platform used for temporary storage of objects so that they can be conveniently moved; it is commonly made of wooden boards, about 4 inches high, and typically has openings in the side into which the blades of a fork-lift truck may be inserted so as to lift and move the pallet and the objects on it.





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"Pallet" Quotes from Famous Books



... him down and built the fire anew and unpacked my horse and got my blankets and made a pallet and lifted him on it. Lifting him seemed to revive him, and the firelight showed me that he had opened his eyes, and he put his hand on his stomach and whispered, ...
— Chief of Scouts • W.F. Drannan
... fell into silence, scattered, vanished, leaving only the moaning woman to help. At her direction they settled the patient on a straw pallet in ...
— The Unspeakable Perk • Samuel Hopkins Adams
... Surely you cannot be angry when I have killed them all for you? Oh, my darling, my darling! If you only knew how I love you! Oh, my darling, my darling!" and in an agony of passion he flung himself on to the rough pallet in the corner of the hut and sobbed ...
— Jess • H. Rider Haggard
... approached the hut, and heard from within the sobs and wailing of a female. No answer was returned when he knocked, so that, after a moment's pause, he lifted the latch and entered. It was indeed a house of solitude and sorrow. Stretched upon her miserable pallet lay the corpse of the last retainer of the house of Ravenswood who still abode on their paternal domains! Life had but shortly departed; and the little girl by whom she had been attended in her last moments was wringing her hands and sobbing, betwixt childish fear ...
— Bride of Lammermoor • Sir Walter Scott
... shut the window, and sat some hours, in the idea that it would be in vain to seek repose. At length I threw myself on my pallet, and ...
— My Ten Years' Imprisonment • Silvio Pellico


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