Definitions for palletˈpæl ɪt
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
pal•letˈpæl ɪt(n.)
a bed or mattress of straw.
a small or makeshift bed.
Origin of pallet:
1325–75; ME pailet < AF paillete= OF paille straw (< L palea chaff) +-ete-ette
pal•letˈpæl ɪt(n.)
a low, portable platform on which goods are placed for storage or moving.
a flat board or metal plate used to support ceramics during drying.
a lever in a timepiece that receives impulses from the escape wheel and transmits them to the balance.
Category: Horology
a painter's palette.
(on a pawl) a lip or projection that engages with the teeth of a ratchet wheel.
Category: Machinery
a shaping tool used by potters, consisting of a flat blade or plate with a handle.
(v.t.)to palletize.
Category: Common Vocabulary
Origin of pallet:
1550–60; < MF palette small shovel. See palette
Princeton's WordNet
palette, pallet(noun)
the range of colour characteristic of a particular artist or painting or school of art
pallet(noun)
a portable platform for storing or moving goods that are stacked on it
pallet(noun)
a hand tool with a flat blade used by potters for mixing and shaping clay
pallet(noun)
a mattress filled with straw or a pad made of quilts; used as a bed
palette, pallet(noun)
board that provides a flat surface on which artists mix paints and the range of colors used
Webster Dictionary
Pallet(noun)
a small and mean bed; a bed of straw
Pallet(noun)
same as Palette
Pallet(noun)
a wooden implement used by potters, crucible makers, etc., for forming, beating, and rounding their works. It is oval, round, and of other forms
Pallet(noun)
a potter's wheel
Pallet(noun)
an instrument used to take up gold leaf from the pillow, and to apply it
Pallet(noun)
a tool for gilding the backs of books over the bands
Pallet(noun)
a board on which a newly molded brick is conveyed to the hack
Pallet(noun)
a click or pawl for driving a ratchet wheel
Pallet(noun)
one of the series of disks or pistons in the chain pump
Pallet(noun)
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
Pallet(noun)
in the organ, a valve between the wind chest and the mouth of a pipe or row of pipes
Pallet(noun)
one of a pair of shelly plates that protect the siphon tubes of certain bivalves, as the Teredo. See Illust. of Teredo
Pallet(noun)
a cup containing three ounces, -- /ormerly used by surgeons
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