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Webster 1913 Edition
Pallet
Pal′let
,Noun.
[Dim. of
pale
. See Pale
a stake.] (Her.)
A perpendicular band upon an escutcheon, one half the breadth of the pale.
Pal′let
,Noun.
[F.
palette
: af. It. paletta
; prop. and orig., a fire shovel, dim. of L. pala
a shovel, spade. See Peel
a shovel.] 2.
(Pottery)
(a)
A wooden implement used by potters, crucible makers, etc., for forming, beating, and rounding their works. It is oval, round, and of other forms.
(b)
A potter’s wheel.
3.
(Gilding)
(a)
An instrument used to take up gold leaf from the pillow, and to apply it.
(b)
A tool for gilding the backs of books over the bands.
4.
(Brickmaking)
A board on which a newly molded brick is conveyed to the hack.
Knight.
5.
(Mach.)
(a)
A click or pawl for driving a ratchet wheel.
(b)
One of the series of disks or pistons in the chain pump.
Knight.
6.
(Horology)
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.
Brande & C.
7.
(Mus.)
In the organ, a valve between the wind chest and the mouth of a pipe or row of pipes.
8.
(Zool.)
One of a pair of shelly plates that protect the siphon tubes of certain bivalves, as the Teredo. See Illust. of
Teredo
. 9.
A cup containing three ounces, – formerly used by surgeons.
Webster 1828 Edition
Pallet
PAL'LET
,Noun.
1.
Among painters, a little oval table or board, or piece of ivroy, on which the painter places the colors to be used. On the middle the colors are mixed to obtain the tints required.2.
Among potters, crucible makers, &c. a wooden instrument for forming, heating and rounding their works. It is oval, round, &c.3.
In gilding, an instrument made of a squirrel's tail, to take up the gold leaves from the pillow, and to apply and extend them.4.
In heraldry, a small pale. [See Pale.]5.
A small part belonging to the balance of a watch; the nut of a watch. It is sometimes written pallat.6.
A measure formerly used by surgeons, containing three ounces.PAL'LET
,Noun.
Definition 2024
pallet
pallet
English
A wooden pallet
Noun
pallet (plural pallets)
- A portable platform, usually designed to be easily moved by a forklift, on which goods can be stacked, for transport or storage.
- (military) A flat base for combining stores or carrying a single item to form a unit load for handling, transportation, and storage by materials handling equipment[1].
- (military) (DOD only) 463L pallet – An 88” x 108” aluminum flat base used to facilitate the upload and download of aircraft[1].
Derived terms
Translations
a portable platform
Verb
pallet (third-person singular simple present pallets, present participle palleting, simple past and past participle palleted)
- (transitive) To load or stack (goods) onto pallets.
Etymology 2
From the Middle English paillet, from Anglo-Norman paillete (“bundle of straw”), from Old French paille (“straw, chaff”), from Latin palea (“chaff”)
Noun
pallet (plural pallets)
Translations
A straw bed
Etymology 3
Latin palla: to cut; hence a strip of cloth. The diminutive of the pale.
Noun
pallet (plural pallets)
- (heraldry) A narrow vertical stripe.
Etymology 4
Noun
pallet (plural pallets)
- (painting) Archaic form of palette.
- Robert Southey
- The Old Dragon fled when the wonder he spied, / And cursed his own fruitless endeavor; / While the Painter call'd after his rage to deride, / Shook his pallet and brushes in triumph, and cried, / "I'll paint thee more ugly than ever!"
- 1860, Chambers's Information for the People (volume 1, page 203)
- For example, let a painter's pallet be suspended from the thumb-hole, as in the figure […]
- Robert Southey
- A wooden implement, often oval or round, used by potters, crucible makers, etc., for forming, beating, and rounding their works.
- A potter's wheel.
- (gilding) An instrument used to take up gold leaf from the pillow, and to apply it.
- (gilding) A tool for gilding the backs of books over the bands.
- (brickmaking) A board on which a newly moulded brick is conveyed to the hack.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Knight to this entry?)
- (engineering) A click or pawl for driving a ratchet wheel.
- (engineering) One of the series of disks or pistons in the chain pump.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Knight to this entry?)
- (horology) 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.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Brande & C. to this entry?)
- (music) In the organ, a valve between the wind chest and the mouth of a pipe or row of pipes.
- (zoology) One of a pair of shelly plates that protect the siphon tubes of certain bivalves, such as the Teredo.
- A cup containing three ounces, formerly used by surgeons.
References
- The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford University Press
- Notes:
- 1 2 Joint Publication 1-02 U.S. Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms; 12 April 2001 (As Amended Through 14 April 2006).