pallet /ˈpælɪt/noun 15verb 1forms 3 noun15 •A portable platform, usually designed to be easily moved by a forklift, on which goods can be stacked, for transport or storage. •A bed of loose straw. •Any makeshift bedding place. •A click or pawl for driving a ratchet wheel. •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. •A wooden implement, often oval or round, used by potters, crucible makers, etc., for forming, beating, and rounding their works. •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 potter's wheel. •A board on which a newly moulded brick is conveyed to the hack. •One of the series of disks or pistons in the chain pump. •A narrow vertical stripe, narrower than a pale. Diminutive of pale. •One of a pair of shelly plates that protect the siphon tubes of certain bivalves, such as the Teredo. •(rare, historical) A Parisian measure of blood let; a cup containing three ounces, formerly used by surgeons. verb1 •To load or stack (goods) onto pallets. formspalleted · palleting · pallets
