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pallet
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)
- A portable platform, usually designed to be easily moved by a forklift, on which goods can be stacked, for transport or storage.
- (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.
- (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)
- (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)
- A straw bed.
- (by extension) A makeshift bed.
Translations
Etymology 3
From Latin palla (“to cut”), hence “a strip of cloth”.
Noun
pallet (plural pallets)
- (heraldry) A narrow vertical stripe. Diminutive of pale.
Etymology 4
Noun
pallet (plural pallets)
- (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 […]
- 1798, Robert Southey, The Pious Painter
- 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.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Knight to this entry?)
- (engineering) A click or pawl for driving a ratchet wheel.
- (engineering) One of the series of disks or pistons in the chain pump.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Knight to this entry?)
- (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.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Brande & C to this entry?)
- (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.
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)
- pallet
Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from English pallet.
Noun
pallet m (plural pallet)
- pallet
Latin
Verb
pallet
- third-person singular present active indicative of palle?
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pallette
English
Alternative forms
- palette
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, pallet
Noun
pallette (plural pallettes)
- Misspelling of palette.
- The rounded plates in the armpits of a suit of armour. Alternate spelling: palette.
Usage notes
This rare term should not be confused with an artist's color palette, nor with a computer graphics program's color palette.
Anagrams
- altepetl, platelet
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