• (RP) IPA: /ˈpælɪt/
• (America) IPA: /ˈpælɪt/, /ˈpælət/
• (Australia) IPA: /ˈpælət/

pallet (plural pallets)

1. A portable platform, usually designed to be easily moved by a forklift, on which goods can be stacked, for transport or storage.
2. (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.
3. (military) (DOD only) 463L pallet – An 88” x 108” aluminum flat base used to facilitate the upload and download of aircraft.

• French: palette
• German: Palette
• Italian: bancale, pallet
• Portuguese: palete
• Russian: поддо́н
• Spanish: palé, pallet (Mexico)

pallet (pallets, present participle palleting; past and past participle palleted)

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

pallet (plural pallets)

1. A straw bed#Noun|bed.
   • 1599, [Thomas] Nashe, Nashes Lenten Stuffe, […], London: Printed [by Thomas Judson and Valentine Simmes] for N[icholas] L[ing] and C[uthbert] B[urby] […], OCLC 228714942 ↗; reprinted Menston, West Yorkshire: The Scolar Press, 1971, →ISBN, page 3 ↗:

     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 mutton#English|muttõ & broth, and a pallet to ſleep on; and with deriſion they reiected him, [...]

2. (by extension) A makeshift bed.

• French: paillasse
• Italian: pagliericcio, giaciglio, saccone, stramazzo
• Portuguese: enxerga

pallet (plural pallets)

1. (heraldiccharge) A narrow vertical stripe. Diminutive of pale#English|pale.

pallet (plural pallets)

1. (painting) Archaic form of palette#English|palette.

   • 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'll paint thee more ugly than ever!"

   • 1860, Chambers's Information for the People (volume 1, page 203)

     For example, let a painter's pallet be suspended from the thumb-hole, as in the figure […]

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. (gilding) An instrument used to take up gold leaf from the pillow, and to apply it.
5. (gilding) A tool for gilding the backs of books over the bands.
6. (brickmaking) A board on which a newly moulded brick is conveyed to the hack.
7. (engineering) A click or pawl for driving a ratchet wheel.
8. (engineering) One of the series of disks or pistons in the chain pump.
9. (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.
10. (music) In the organ, a valve between the wind chest and the mouth of a pipe or row of pipes.
11. (zoology) One of a pair of shelly plates that protect the siphon tubes of certain bivalves, such as the Teredo.
12. A cup containing three ounces, formerly used by surgeons.