Pallet

What “Pallet” means

Noun

1. A bed of loose straw.
2. Any makeshift bedding place.
3. A portable platform, usually designed to be easily moved by a forklift, on which goods can be stacked, for transport or storage.

Verb

1. To load or stack (goods) onto pallets.

Noun

1. A narrow vertical stripe, narrower than a pale. Diminutive of pale.

Noun

1. A wooden implement, often oval or round, used by potters, crucible makers, etc., for forming, beating, and rounding their works.
2. A potter's wheel.
3. An instrument used to take up gold leaf from the pillow, and to apply it.
4. A tool for gilding the backs of books over the bands.
5. A board on which a newly moulded brick is conveyed to the hack.

Where the word comes from

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

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

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Industries where “Pallet” fits

We suggest this word for 1 business types and industries, including:

• Wood Container and Pallet Manufacturing