1750 T. R. Blanckley Naval Expositor 114 Palleting, the Floor of the Bread-room and Magazine of Powder, generally wrought of ordinary Deal, and is laid above the Keelson, for keeping the Bread and Powder dry.

1815 W. Burney Falconer's New Universal Dict. Marine (rev. ed.) Palletting Hatches..are small apertures..formed by the palletting-beams and carlings in the fore-magazine.

1850 J. Greenwood Sailor's Sea-bk. 95 Palleting-Beams are those beams under the flat of the magazine, bread-room, and powder-room, where there is a double palleting.

1850 J. Greenwood Sailor's Sea-bk. 136 Palleting, a slight platform made above the bottom of the magazine, to keep the powder from moisture.

1976 P. Kemp Oxf. Compan. Ships & Sea 627/2 Palletting, a raised platform in the magazines of older warships on which the powder barrels were stored to keep them dry.

1956 News (Frederick, Maryland) 10 May 1/4 The buildings and machinery needed for both the planing and palleting were totally destroyed.

1966 Times 30 Sept. 10/5 If turn-round time is set for 90 minutes, efficient sorting, palleting and moving of goods in the sheds must remain a critical element.

1986 W. Strieber & J. Kunetka Nature's End (1987) i. 40 It searched and loaded our bags and equipment for palleting.

1998 Farmers Weekly (Nexis) 30 Oct. 25 ABP charged £358 for killing, boning and packing, and retail packaging and palleting.