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pal⋅let

1  [pal-it]
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–noun
1. a bed or mattress of straw.
2. a small or makeshift bed.
Origin:
1325–75; ME pailet < AF paillete, equiv. to OF paille straw (< L palea chaff) + -ete ette
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pal⋅let

2  [pal-it] noun, verb, -let⋅ed, -let⋅ing.
–noun
1. a small, low, portable platform on which goods are placed for storage or moving, as in a warehouse or vehicle.
2. a flat board or metal plate used to support ceramic articles during drying.
3. Horology.
a. a lever with three projections, two of which intermittently lock and receive impulses from the escape wheel and one which transmits these impulses to the balance.
b. either of the two projections of this lever that engage and release the escape wheel.
4. a painter's palette.
5. (on a pawl) a lip or projection that engages with the teeth of a ratchet wheel.
6. Printing. typeholder.
7. (in gilding) an instrument used to take up the gold leaves from the pillow and to apply and extend them.
8. a shaping tool used by potters and consisting of a flat blade or plate with a handle at one end.
9. Bookbinding.
a. a tool for decorating the spine of a book.
b. the stamping of the name of the binder on the inside covers of a book.
–verb (used with object)
10. palletize.
Origin:
1550–60; < MF palette small shovel. See palette

type⋅hold⋅er

  [tahyp-hohl-der]
–noun Printing.
a small device for holding a few lines of type, used in stamping titles on book covers, or the like.
Also called pallet.

Origin:
type + holder
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pal·let 1   (pāl'ĭt)   
n.  

  1. A projection on a machine part, such as a pawl for controlling the motion of a ratchet wheel in a watch escapement, that engages the teeth of a ratchet wheel to convert reciprocating motion to rotary motion or vice versa.

  2. A wooden, shovellike potter's tool used for mixing and shaping clay.

  3. A metal tool used for printing on book bindings.

  4. A fine brush used for taking up and applying gold leaf.

  5. A portable platform used for storing or moving cargo or freight.

  6. A painter's palette.


[Middle English palet, tongue depressor, from Old French palete, small potter's shovel; see palette.]
pal·let 2   (pāl'ĭt)   
n.  

  1. A narrow hard bed or straw-filled mattress.

  2. Chiefly Southern U.S. A temporary bed made from bedding arranged on the floor, especially for a child.


[Middle English paillet, from Anglo-Norman, bundle of straw, from paille, straw, from Late Latin palea; see paillasse.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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Word Origin & History

pallet  (1)
"mattress," c.1374, from Anglo-Fr. paillete "straw, bundle of straw," from O.Fr. paillete "chaff," from paille "straw," from L. palea "chaff," cognate with Skt. palavah, O.C.S. pleva, Rus. peleva, Lith. pelus.

pallet  (2)
"flat wooden blade" used as a tool by potters, etc., 1558, from M.Fr. palette, dim. of pale "spade, shovel" (see palette). Meaning "large portable tray" used with forklift for moving loads is from 1921.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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