pallet

Plural: pallets

Noun

• A bed or mattress, typically of straw or poor quality.
• the range of colour characteristic of a particular artist or painting or school of art
• a portable platform for storing or moving goods that are stacked on it
• a hand tool with a flat blade used by potters for mixing and shaping clay
• a mattress filled with straw or a pad made of quilts; used as a bed
• board that provides a flat surface on which artists mix paints and the range of colors used
• A straw bed.
• A makeshift bed.
• A portable platform, usually designed to be easily moved by a forklift, on which goods can be stacked, for transport or storage.
• A narrow vertical stripe, narrower than a pale. Diminutive of pale.
• Archaic form of palette.
• A wooden implement, often oval or round, used by potters, crucible makers, etc., for forming, beating, and rounding their works.
• A potter's wheel.
• An instrument used to take up gold leaf from the pillow, and to apply it.
• A tool for gilding the backs of books over the bands.
• A board on which a newly moulded brick is conveyed to the hack.
• A click or pawl for driving a ratchet wheel.
• One of the series of disks or pistons in the chain pump.
• One of the pieces or levers connected with the pendulum of a clock, or the balance of a watch, which receive the immediate impulse of the scape-wheel, or balance wheel.
• In the organ, a valve between the wind chest and the mouth of a pipe or row of pipes.
• One of a pair of shelly plates that protect the siphon tubes of certain bivalves, such as the Teredo.
• A Parisian measure of blood let; a cup containing three ounces, formerly used by surgeons.

Verb

• To load or stack (goods) onto pallets.

Examples

• He scored "PALLET" using all his vowels, turning humble tiles into points.

Synonyms

palette