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pallet
1[ pal-it ]
noun
- a bed or mattress of straw.
- a small or makeshift bed.
pallet
2[ pal-it ]
noun
- a small, low, portable platform on which goods are placed for storage or moving, as in a warehouse or vehicle.
- a flat board or metal plate used to support ceramic articles during drying.
- Horology.
- 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.
- either of the two projections of this lever that engage and release the escape wheel.
- a painter's palette.
- (on a pawl) a lip or projection that engages with the teeth of a ratchet wheel.
- Printing. typeholder.
- (in gilding) an instrument used to take up the gold leaves from the pillow and to apply and extend them.
- a shaping tool used by potters and consisting of a flat blade or plate with a handle at one end.
- Bookbinding.
- a tool for decorating the spine of a book.
- the stamping of the name of the binder on the inside covers of a book.
verb (used with object)
pallet
1/ ˈpælɪt /
noun
- a straw-filled mattress or bed
- any hard or makeshift bed
pallet
2/ ˈpælɪt /
noun
- an instrument with a handle and a flat, sometimes flexible, blade used by potters for shaping
- a standard-sized platform of box section open at two ends on which goods may be stacked. The open ends allow the entry of the forks of a lifting truck so that the palletized load can be raised and moved about easily
- horology the locking lever that engages and disengages alternate end pawls with the escape wheel to give impulses to the balance
- a variant spelling of palette
- music a flap valve of wood faced with leather that opens to allow air from the wind chest to enter an organ pipe, causing it to sound
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Example Sentences
On our last visit, we noticed a whole pallet of Purple Heart, Distinguished Flying Cross, and Silver Star certificates.
I noticed their new un-faded uniforms, their dust-free boots, and their duffel bags stacked high on a pallet.
We love the chicken on a pallet of herby, slightly sweet cornbread dressing, which imbibes all the seeping juices.
It is important that a smooth and balanced experience on the pallet is created.
In 2004, a pallet of batteries caught fire on a FedEx plane.
The unoccupied pallet of Martini lay in one corner of this miserable anti-room.
There were usually six joints or sources of friction, between the key and the pallet.
That with the increased area of the pallet is why the lower notes of the organ were so hard to play.
The bellows, being expanded by the wind, pulls down the pallet in the wind-chest; the bellows does all the hard work.
Under these conditions, the large motor B collapses and the pull-down P (which is connected with the organ pallet) rises.
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