pallet1
n.
- a straw mattress.
- a crude or makeshift bed.
Etymology
ME: from Anglo-Norman Fr. paillete, from paille ‘straw’.
pallet2
n.
- a portable platform on which goods can be moved, stacked, and stored.
- a flat wooden blade with a handle, used to shape clay or plaster.
- an artist's palette.
- a projection on a machine part, serving to change the mode of motion of a wheel.
▸(in a clock or watch) a projection transmitting motion from an escapement to a pendulum or balance wheel.
Derivative
- palleted adj.
- palletize
or palletise v.
Etymology
ME: from Fr. palette ‘little blade’, from L. pala ‘spade’.
pallet3
n.
Heraldry a narrow vertical strip usually borne in groups of two or three.
Etymology
C15: dimin. of pale2.
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