Dictionary

pallet en · NOUN · etymology 1

Pronunciation

• /ˈpælɪt/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• /ˈpælɪt/ (US)
• (Southern-England) audio
• /ˈpælət/ (US)
• /ˈpælət/ (Australia)

Etymology

From Middle English paillet, from Anglo-Norman paillete (“bundle of straw”), from Old French paille (“straw, chaff”), from Latin palea (“chaff”).

Meanings

1. A bed of loose straw.
   • Near-synonym: strawbed (mattress sense)
   • Weary, but too anxious for sleep, Beatrice gazed round the miserable little room: the walls, from which the plaster was mouldering—the cobwebs, that for years had been gathering on the rafters of the roof—the window, or rather opening, for window there was none, but a wooden shutter, which kept creaking backwards and forwards—the floor, discoloured with dirt—the wretched pallet—all struck her with a sick shudder of loathing and misery. 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Romance and Reality. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, pages 222–223:
   • That good old blind bibber of Helicon I wot well, came a begging to one of the chiefe citties of Greece, & promiſed them vaſt corpulent volumes of immortallity, if they would beſtowe vpon him but a ſlender outbrothers annuity of muttõ & broth, and a pallet to ſleep on; and with deriſion they reiected him, [...] 1599, [Thomas] Nashe, Nashes Lenten Stuffe, […], London: […] [Thomas Judson and Valentine Simmes] for N[icholas] L[ing] and C[uthbert] B[urby] […], →OCLC, page 3:
2. (broadly) Any makeshift bedding place.
   • Near-synonym: scratcher (slang)
3. A portable platform, usually designed to be easily moved by a forklift, on which goods can be stacked, for transport or storage.

Forms

Coordinates

hay bed

Deriveds

pallet pump · pallet truck · palletainer · GMA pallet · palletlike · pallet picking · palletize · cargo pallet · palletization · repallet · palletisation · pallet jack · palletise

Relateds

litter · stretcher

Synonyms

strawbed · skid · scratcher

Translations (75)

mk пале́та (portable platform) · pl barłóg (improvised bed) · es pálet (portable platform) · es jerga (straw bed) · ru пале́та (portable platform) · cmn 托板 (portable platform) · nn pall (portable platform) · bg сламеник (straw bed) · da europalle (portable platform) · et euroalus (portable platform) · cs paleta (portable platform) · sk paleta (portable platform) · it stramazzo (straw bed) · pl siennik (straw bed) · it pagliericcio (straw bed) · pl leże (improvised bed) · et alus (portable platform) · ru поддо́н (portable platform) · fi olkivuode (straw bed) · tl paleta (portable platform) · fo plattur (portable platform) · eo paledo (portable platform) · et kaubaalus (portable platform) · it bancale (portable platform) · af palet (portable platform) · fi kuormalava (portable platform) · it pallet (portable platform) · bg палет (portable platform) · pl legowisko (improvised bed) · mk сламарица (straw bed) · hu raklap (portable platform) · cmn 貨盤 /货盘 (portable platform) · grc κράββατος (straw bed) · cmn 地鋪 /地铺 (improvised bed) · an cherga (straw bed) · pl siennik (improvised bed) · fi lava (portable platform) · ga sráideog (improvised bed) · es palet (portable platform) · cmn 拖板 (portable platform) · ga leaba chocháin (straw bed) · es jergón (straw bed) · it giaciglio (straw bed) · pl paleta (portable platform) · lv paliktne (portable platform) · pl wyro (improvised bed) · cmn 稻草鋪 /稻草铺 (straw bed) · nl pallet (portable platform) · ga leaba shoip (straw bed) · sv pall (portable platform) · ru соломенная постель (straw bed) · da palle (portable platform) · la grabātus (straw bed) · pt palete (portable platform) · cmn 簡陋床鋪 /简陋床铺 (improvised bed) · fr palette (portable platform) · ga sráideog (straw bed) · nb pall (portable platform) · fr paillasse (straw bed) · ca palet (portable platform) · ja パレット (portable platform) · es pallet (portable platform) · de Palette (portable platform) · cmn 棧板 /栈板 (portable platform) · grc ἀσκάντης (portable platform) · it saccone (straw bed) · cmn 草褥 (straw bed) · cmn 臨時鋪位 /临时铺位 (improvised bed) · sv lastpall (portable platform) · ga leaba thuí (straw bed) · mi pārete (portable platform) · es palé (portable platform) · cmn 草床 (straw bed) · cmn 托盤 /托盘 (portable platform) · pt enxerga (straw bed)

wikidata: Q505996

pallet en · VERB · etymology 1

Pronunciation

• /ˈpælɪt/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• /ˈpælɪt/ (US)
• (Southern-England) audio
• /ˈpælət/ (US)
• /ˈpælət/ (Australia)

Etymology

From Middle English paillet, from Anglo-Norman paillete (“bundle of straw”), from Old French paille (“straw, chaff”), from Latin palea (“chaff”).

Meanings

1. (transitive) To load or stack (goods) onto pallets.

Forms

Deriveds

unpalleted

pallet en · NOUN · etymology 2

Pronunciation

• /ˈpælɪt/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• /ˈpælɪt/ (US)
• (Southern-England) audio
• /ˈpælət/ (US)
• /ˈpælət/ (Australia)

Etymology

Said to be from Middle English *palet, from Middle French *palet, from Middle French pal (“pale”), ultimately from Latin palla (“a strip of cloth”).

Meanings

1. A narrow vertical stripe, narrower than a pale. Diminutive of pale.

Forms

pallet en · NOUN · etymology 3

Pronunciation

• /ˈpælɪt/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• /ˈpælɪt/ (US)
• (Southern-England) audio
• /ˈpælət/ (US)
• /ˈpælət/ (Australia)

Meanings

1. (alt-of, archaic, qualifier:painting) Archaic form of palette.
   alt of palette
   • For example, let a painter's pallet be suspended from the thumb-hole, as in the figure […] 1860, Chambers's Information for the People, volume 1, page 203:
   • 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!" 1798, Robert Southey, The Pious Painter:
2. A wooden implement, often oval or round, used by potters, crucible makers, etc., for forming, beating, and rounding their works.
3. A potter's wheel.
4. (qualifier:gilding) An instrument used to take up gold leaf from the pillow, and to apply it.
5. (qualifier:gilding) A tool for gilding the backs of books over the bands.
6. A board on which a newly moulded brick is conveyed to the hack.
7. A click or pawl for driving a ratchet wheel.
8. One of the series of disks or pistons in the chain pump.
9. 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.
   • the swing wheel […]is represented as being locked by one of its teeth on the nib or detent part of the right hand pallet, and the moment when the wheel is unlocked, the tooth at the left hand pallet is ready to press forward and raise up that pallet 1832, Thomas Reid, Treatise on Clock and Watch Making:
10. In the organ, a valve between the wind chest and the mouth of a pipe or row of pipes.
11. One of a pair of shelly plates that protect the siphon tubes of certain bivalves, such as the Teredo.

Forms

pallet en · NOUN · etymology 4

Pronunciation

• /ˈpælɪt/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• /ˈpælɪt/ (US)
• (Southern-England) audio
• /ˈpælət/ (US)
• /ˈpælət/ (Australia)

Etymology

Learned borrowing from French palette.

Meanings

1. (historical, rare) A Parisian measure of blood let; a cup containing three ounces, formerly used by surgeons.

Forms