different between lair vs pallet

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /l??/
• (US) IPA^(key): /l???/
• Rhymes: -??(?)
• Homophone: layer (one pronunciation)

Etymology 1

From Middle English leir, leire, lair, lare, from Old English le?er (“couch, bed”), from Proto-Germanic *legr?, from Proto-Indo-European *leg?-.

Noun

lair (plural lairs)

1. A place inhabited by a wild animal, often a cave or a hole in the ground.
2. A shed or shelter for domestic animals.
3. (figuratively) A place inhabited by a criminal or criminals, a superhero or a supervillain; a refuge, retreat, haven or hideaway.
   • 1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula Chapter 21

     ...Van Helsing stood up and said, "Now, my dear friends, we go forth to our terrible enterprise. Are we all armed, as we were on that night when first we visited our enemy's lair. Armed against ghostly as well as carnal attack?"

4. (Britain dialectal) A bed or resting place.
5. (Scotland) A grave; a cemetery plot. [from c. 1420]

Synonyms

• (of an animal): burrow (of some smaller mammals), den (of a lion or tiger), holt (of an otter)
• (of a criminal): den, hide-out

Derived terms

• (grave): lair-stone (“tombstone”)

Translations

Verb

lair (third-person singular simple present lairs, present participle lairing, simple past and past participle laired)

1. (Britain) To rest; to dwell.
2. (Britain) To lay down.
3. (Britain) To bury.

Etymology 2

From Old Norse leir (“clay, mud”). Compare Icelandic leir (“clay”).

Noun

lair (plural lairs)

1. (Scotland) A bog; a mire.

Verb

lair (third-person singular simple present lairs, present participle lairing, simple past and past participle laired)

1. (transitive, Scotland) To mire.
2. (intransitive, Scotland) To become mired.

Etymology 3

Backformation from lairy.

Noun

lair (plural lairs)

1. (Australia, New Zealand, colloquial) A person who dresses in a showy but tasteless manner and behaves in a vulgar and conceited way; a show-off.

References

• Wright, Joseph (1902) The English Dialect Dictionary?^[3], volume 3, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pages 505–506
• “lair” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.

Anagrams

• aril, lari, liar, lira, rail, rial

Manx

Noun

lair f

1. Alternative form of laair

Scots

Etymology

From Old English l?r (“instruction”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?lair/
• Rhymes: -er

Noun

lair (plural lairs)

1. lore
   • "Ower mony a fair-farrant an rare beuk o precious lair" (second line of "The Raven" translated into Scots).

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?pæl?t/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?pæl?t/, /?pæl?t/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /?pæl?t/
• Rhymes: -æl?t
• Homophones: palate, palette, pallette

Etymology 1

From Middle English palet, from Anglo-Norman palete, from Old Norse pallr. Doublet of palette.

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Noun

pallet (plural pallets)

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

Derived terms

• palletainer
• palletizer

Translations

Verb

pallet (third-person singular simple present pallets, present participle palleting, simple past and past participle palleted)

1. (transitive) To load or stack (goods) onto pallets.

Etymology 2

From Middle English paillet, from Anglo-Norman paillete (“bundle of straw”), from Old French paille (“straw, chaff”), from Latin palea (“chaff”).

Noun

pallet (plural pallets)

1. A straw bed.
2. (by extension) A makeshift bed.

Translations

Etymology 3

From Latin palla (“to cut”), hence “a strip of cloth”.

Noun

pallet (plural pallets)

1. (heraldry) A narrow vertical stripe. Diminutive of pale.

Etymology 4

Noun

pallet (plural pallets)

1. (painting) Archaic form of palette.
   • 1798, Robert Southey, The Pious Painter

     The 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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

References

• The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford University Press
• Notes:

Anagrams

• L-plate, laplet, platel

Dutch

Etymology

From English pallet.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p?l?t/
• Homophone: pellet
• Rhymes: -?t

Noun

pallet m (plural pallets, diminutive palletje n)

1. pallet

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English pallet.

Noun

pallet m (plural pallet)

1. pallet

Latin

Verb

pallet

1. third-person singular present active indicative of palle?