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pallet.

A bed of loose straw.

6 characters2 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

noun/ˈpælɪt/Received-Pronunciation/ˈpælɪt/US/ˈpælət/US/ˈpælət/Australia
  1. A bed of loose straw.

  2. Any makeshift bedding place.

    broadly
  3. A portable platform, usually designed to be easily moved by a forklift, on which goods can be stacked, for transport or storage.

Where this word comes from

From Middle English paillet, from Anglo-Norman paillete (“bundle of straw”), from Old French paille (“straw, chaff”), from Latin palea (“chaff”).

verb/ˈpælɪt/Received-Pronunciation/ˈpælɪt/US/ˈpælət/US/ˈpælət/Australia
  1. To load or stack (goods) onto pallets.

    transitive
Where this word comes from

From Middle English paillet, from Anglo-Norman paillete (“bundle of straw”), from Old French paille (“straw, chaff”), from Latin palea (“chaff”).

noun/ˈpælɪt/Received-Pronunciation/ˈpælɪt/US/ˈpælət/US/ˈpælət/Australia
  1. A narrow vertical stripe, narrower than a pale. Diminutive of pale.

Where this word comes from

Said to be from Middle English *palet, from Middle French *palet, from Middle French pal (“pale”), ultimately from Latin palla (“a strip of cloth”).

noun/ˈpælɪt/Received-Pronunciation/ˈpælɪt/US/ˈpælət/US/ˈpælət/Australia
  1. Archaic form of palette.

    alt-of · archaic
  2. A wooden implement, often oval or round, used by potters, crucible makers, etc., for forming, beating, and rounding their works.

  3. A potter's wheel.

  4. An instrument used to take up gold leaf from the pillow, and to apply it.

  5. A tool for gilding the backs of books over the bands.

  6. A board on which a newly moulded brick is conveyed to the hack.

  7. A click or pawl for driving a ratchet wheel.

  8. One of the series of disks or pistons in the chain pump.

  9. 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.

  10. In the organ, a valve between the wind chest and the mouth of a pipe or row of pipes.

  11. One of a pair of shelly plates that protect the siphon tubes of certain bivalves, such as the Teredo.

noun/ˈpælɪt/Received-Pronunciation/ˈpælɪt/US/ˈpælət/US/ˈpælət/Australia
  1. A Parisian measure of blood let; a cup containing three ounces, formerly used by surgeons.

    historical · rare
Where this word comes from

Learned borrowing from French palette.

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