Associations to the word «Pallet»

Wiktionary

PALLET, noun. A portable platform, usually designed to be easily moved by a forklift, on which goods can be stacked, for transport or storage.
PALLET, noun. (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.
PALLET, noun. (military) (DOD only) 463L pallet – An 88” x 108” aluminum flat base used to facilitate the upload and download of aircraft.
PALLET, verb. (transitive) To load or stack (goods) onto pallets.
PALLET, noun. A straw bed.
PALLET, noun. (By extension from above) A makeshift bed.
PALLET, noun. (heraldiccharge) A narrow vertical strip.
PALLET, noun. (painting) Archaic form of palette.
PALLET, noun. A wooden implement, often oval or round, used by potters, crucible makers, etc., for forming, beating, and rounding their works.
PALLET, noun. A potter's wheel.
PALLET, noun. (gilding) An instrument used to take up gold leaf from the pillow, and to apply it.
PALLET, noun. (gilding) A tool for gilding the backs of books over the bands.
PALLET, noun. (brickmaking) A board on which a newly moulded brick is conveyed to the hack.
PALLET, noun. (engineering) A click or pawl for driving a ratchet wheel.
PALLET, noun. (engineering) One of the series of disks or pistons in the chain pump.
PALLET, noun. (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.
PALLET, noun. (music) In the organ, a valve between the wind chest and the mouth of a pipe or row of pipes.
PALLET, noun. (zoology) One of a pair of shelly plates that protect the siphon tubes of certain bivalves, such as the Teredo.
PALLET, noun. A cup containing three ounces, formerly used by surgeons.
PALLET JACK, noun. A manually operated device for lifting and moving pallets.
PALLET TRUCK, noun. A manually operated device for lifting and moving pallets.

Dictionary definition

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.
PALLET, noun. Board that provides a flat surface on which artists mix paints and the range of colors used.

Wise words

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