Pallet Definition

pălĭt
pallets
noun
pallets
A wooden tool consisting of a flat blade with a handle; esp., such a tool used by potters for smoothing and rounding.
Webster's New World
Webster's New World
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.
Webster's New World
A tool used for stamping letters on the binding of a book.
Webster's New World
A low, portable platform, usually double-faced, on which materials are stacked for storage or transportation, as in a warehouse.
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Pallet

Noun

Singular:
pallet
Plural:
pallets

Origin of Pallet

  • From the Middle English paillet, from Anglo-Norman paillette (“bundle of straw"), from Old French paille (“straw, chaff"), from Latin palea (“chaff")

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English paillet from Anglo-Norman bundle of straw from paille straw from Late Latin palea paillasse

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Middle English palet tongue depressor from Old French palete small potter's shovel palette

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Middle English palet, from Anglo-Norman palete, from Old Norse pallr

    From Wiktionary

  • Latin palla: to cut; hence a strip of cloth. The diminutive of the pale.

    From Wiktionary

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