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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



... dawn on Tuesday, and I have slept better, on "my pallet of straw," than many a time in my bed at home. The cooks have for some time been stirring, as I have known by the sound of their axes, the crackling of their fires, the glow reflected on their tents, and their occasional ...
— At Plattsburg • Allen French

... grew dark, and he lay on his pallet, a crowd of thoughts and imaginations pursued him through a long sleep, and when he opened his eyes to the morning light, he gazed around the strange place with astonishment, and tried in vain to persuade himself that his present position was ...
— The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, June 1844 - Volume 23, Number 6 • Various

... No sordid pallet, or truckle mean, Of straw, and rug, and tatters unclean; But a splendid, gilded, carved machine, That was fit for a Royal Chamber. On the top was a gorgeous golden wreath; And the damask curtains hung beneath, Like clouds of ...
— The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood • Thomas Hood

... himself to scold, and, muttering incoherently, stumbled down the staircase, the pallet on his head rustling against the wall on each side. Arrived at the door, he fumbled clumsily with the latch, and, when the door gave way, plumped out with an oath—as if the awkward burden he bore were the only thing ...
— Count Hannibal - A Romance of the Court of France • Stanley J. Weyman

... of robes and a sound of quick feet among the rushes that strewed the floor, and then—Rosamund herself, lovely as ever, but all her stateliness forgot in joy. She saw him, the gaunt Godwin sitting up upon the pallet, his grey eyes shining in the white and sunken face. For Godwin's eyes were grey, while Wulf's were blue, the only difference between them which a stranger would note, although in truth Wulf's lips were fuller than ...
— The Brethren • H. Rider Haggard


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