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In some senses, pallet is marked as archaic, historical, rare. Watch for register when choosing this word.
pallet
/ˈpælɪt/
noun 10verb 1
Collocations
4ADJ.
clear, left, right, suspended, wooden
VERB + PALLET
hand, let, shipping, shook
PALLET + NOUN
moment
PREP.
from, in
Definitions
noun
1
A bed of loose straw.
Near-synonym: strawbed (mattress sense)
That good old blind bibber of Helicon I wot well, came a begging to one of the chiefe citties of Greece, & promiſed them vaſt corpulent volumes of immortallity, if they would beſtowe vpon him but a ſlender outbrothers annuity of muttõ & broth, and a pallet to ſleep on; and with deriſion they reiected him, [...]
2
Any makeshift bedding place.
Near-synonym: scratcher (slang)
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.
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Near-synonym: strawbed (mattress sense)
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That good old blind bibber of Helicon I wot well, came a begging to one of the chiefe citties of Greece, & promiſed them vaſt corpulent volumes of immortallity, if they would beſtowe vpon him but a ſl
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Weary, but too anxious for sleep, Beatrice gazed round the miserable little room: the walls, from which the plaster was mouldering—the cobwebs, that for years had been gathering on the rafters of the
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The Old Dragon fled when the wonder he spied, / And cursed his own fruitless endeavor; / While the Painter call'd after his rage to deride, / Shook his pallet and brushes in triumph, and cried, / "I'l
Wiktionary05
For example, let a painter's pallet be suspended from the thumb-hole, as in the figure […]
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the swing wheel […]is represented as being locked by one of its teeth on the nib or detent part of the right hand pallet, and the moment when the wheel is unlocked, the tooth at the left hand pallet i
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