A pallet is a narrow mattress filled with straw which is put on the floor for someone to sleep on.
2. countable noun
A pallet is a hard, narrow bed.
He was given only a wooden pallet with a blanket.
3. countable noun
A pallet is a flat wooden or metal platform on which goods are stored so that they can be lifted and moved using a forklift truck.
The warehouse will hold more than 90,000 pallets storing 30 million Easter eggs.
pallet in British English1
(ˈpælɪt)
noun
1.
a straw-filled mattress or bed
2.
any hard or makeshift bed
▶ USAGE Avoid confusion with palette, palate
Word origin
C14: from Anglo-Norman paillet, from Old French paille straw, from Latin palea straw
pallet in British English2
(ˈpælɪt)
noun
1.
an instrument with a handle and a flat, sometimes flexible, blade used by potters for shaping
2.
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
3. horology
the locking lever that engages and disengages alternate end pawls with the escape wheel to give impulses to the balance
4. a variant spelling of palette (sense 1)
5. 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
▶ USAGE Avoid confusion with palette, palate
Word origin
C16: from Old French palette a little shovel, from pale spade, from Latin pala spade
pallet in American English1
(ˈpælɪt)
noun
1.
a wooden tool consisting of a flat blade with a handle; esp., such a tool used by potters for smoothing and rounding
2.
palette (sense 1)
3.
a low, portable platform, usually double-faced, on which materials are stacked for storage or transportation, as in a warehouse
4. Bookbinding
a tool used for stamping letters on the binding of a book
5. Mechanics
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
Word origin
Fr palette: see palette
pallet in American English2
(ˈpælɪt)
noun
a small bed or a pad filled as with straw and used directly on the floor
Word origin
ME pailet < MFr paillet < OFr paille, straw < L palea, chaff: see palea
pallet in American English3
(ˈpælɪt)
noun
Heraldry
a vertical stripe half as wide as a pale
Word origin
ME palet < MFr, dim. of pal, pale2
pallet in Retail
(pælɪt)
Word forms: (regular plural) pallets
noun
(Retail: Distribution)
A pallet is a wooden platform on which goods are stacked and has two open ends that allowthe entry of the forks of a lifting truck so the pallet can be lifted and moved abouteasily.
Our products originate from the catalogue companies who send us a wide variety ofpallets packed with their customer returns, surplus stock, and clearance lines.
The automatic system identifies each load and moves the pallets to their allotted aisles in the warehouse.
A pallet is a wooden platform on which goods are stacked and has two open ends that allowthe entry of the forks of a lifting truck so the pallet can be lifted and moved abouteasily.
palletize
Examples of 'pallet' in a sentence
pallet
Wooden pallets were turned upright to form vertical frames in which paintings could be slotted and displayed.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
He got a job in a small factory making wooden pallets.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
They use wooden pallets as floors.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
They are usually stacked on wooden pallets in cardboard boxes, all aimed at keeping prices low.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
So far diversification has been into pallets, display boxes and boxes for storing logs.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
When pallets of wood come up for sale, we are losing out because they can pay more.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
They're easy to build out of old wooden pallets nailed together or you can buy one in kit form.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
One team said that they were asked for almost 9,000 to hire three forklift trucks to move around their boxes and pallets at one race.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
And the wooden delivery pallets have been recycled into 30 sofas and 25 tables for the garden terrace.
The Sun (2016)
It's made of large wooden pallets built up into a box about the size of an old Mini.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
I stop to admire the mountain of wooden pallets that awaits November 5 in the field opposite.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
Other areas have been cleared and flattened for further work and there has been a build-up of shipping containers, pallets and trucks around the terminal.