pallet
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/ˈpælət/
English
Definitions
noun
- A portable platform, usually designed to be easily moved by a forklift, on which goods can be stacked, for transport or storage.
- 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.
- (DOD only) 463L pallet – An 88” x 108” aluminum flat base used to facilitate the upload and download of aircraft.
verb
- To load or stack (goods) onto pallets.
noun
- A straw bed.
- (by extension) A makeshift bed.
noun
- Paleness; pallor.
noun
- A wooden stake; a picket.
- Fence made from wooden stake; palisade.
- (by extension) Limits, bounds (especially before of).
- The bounds of morality, good behaviour or judgment in civilized company, in the phrase beyond the pale.
noun
- A thin board on which a painter lays and mixes colours.
- The range of colors in a given work or item or body of work.
- A visual selection of colours, tools, commands, etc.
- A plate of armour covering the points of junction at the bend of the shoulders and elbows.
noun
- 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.