pallet

The definition of a pallet is a portable platform used to move or store goods or a tool used by potters to smooth clay.

(noun)

An example of a pallet is a large platform that lumber is stacked on in order to be moved for delivery.

See pallet in Webster's New World College Dictionary

noun

a wooden tool consisting of a flat blade with a handle; esp., such a tool used by potters for smoothing and rounding
palette (sense )
a low, portable platform, usually double-faced, on which materials are stacked for storage or transportation, as in a warehouse
Bookbinding a tool used for stamping letters on the binding of a book
Mech. a part of a machine that changes back-and-forth motion to circular motion, or vice versa, by engaging the teeth of a ratchet wheel; pawl; click; esp., any of the clicks or pawls in a clock or watch escapement, which regulate the speed by releasing one tooth of a ratchet wheel at each swing of the pendulum or turn of the balance wheel

Origin: Fr palette: see palette

noun

a small bed or a pad filled as with straw and used directly on the floor

Origin: ME pailet < MFr paillet < OFr paille, straw < L palea, chaff: see palea

noun

Heraldry a vertical stripe half as wide as a pale

Origin: ME palet < MFr, dim. of pal, pale

See pallet in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun

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.
A wooden, shovellike potter's tool used for mixing and shaping clay.
A metal tool used for printing on book bindings.
A fine brush used for taking up and applying gold leaf.
A portable platform used for storing or moving cargo or freight.
A painter's palette.

Origin:

Origin: Middle English palet, tongue depressor

Origin: , from Old French palete, small potter's shovel; see palette

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