pallet.
A bed of loose straw.
Meaning & usage
A bed of loose straw.
Any makeshift bedding place.
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”).
To load or stack (goods) onto pallets.
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”).
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”).
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.
Where this word comes from
Learned borrowing from French palette.
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