PALLET

palette, pallet

(noun) board that provides a flat surface on which artists mix paints and the range of colors used

pallet

(noun) a mattress filled with straw or a pad made of quilts; used as a bed

pallet

(noun) a hand tool with a flat blade used by potters for mixing and shaping clay

pallet

(noun) a portable platform for storing or moving goods that are stacked on it

palette, pallet

(noun) the range of colour characteristic of a particular artist or painting or school of art

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology 1

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.

(military) (DOD only) 463L pallet – An 88” x 108” aluminum flat base used to facilitate the upload and download of aircraft.

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

Noun

pallet (plural pallets)

A straw bed.

(by extension) A makeshift bed.

Etymology 3

Noun

pallet (plural pallets)

(heraldiccharge) A narrow vertical stripe. Diminutive of pale.

Etymology 4

Noun

pallet (plural pallets)

(painting) 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.

(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.

(engineering) A click or pawl for driving a ratchet wheel.

(engineering) One of the series of disks or pistons in the chain pump.

(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.

(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.

Anagrams

• L-plate, laplet, platel

Source: Wiktionary


Pal"let, n. Etym: [OE. paillet, F. paillet a heap of straw, fr. paille straw, fr. L. palea chaff; cf. Gr. pala straw, palava chaff. Cf. Paillasse.]

Definition: A small and mean bed; a bed of straw. Milton.

Pal"let, n. Etym: [F. palette: af. It. paletta; prop. and orig., a fire shovel, dim. of L. pala a shovel, spade. See Peel a shovel.]

1. (Paint.)

Definition: Same as Palette.

2. (Pettery) (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)

Definition: 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)

Definition: 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.)

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

8. (ZoΓΆl.)

Definition: 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, --

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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