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FLAT TRANSPORT STRUCTURE THAT SUPPORTS GOODS IN A STABLE FASHION
Pallets; Palletization; Gkn pallet; Shipping pallet; Plastic pallet; Palletizing; Palletisation; Plastic pallets; Block pallet; Palletized cargo; Cargo platform; Carrier block; ISO 6780:2003; Cargo pallet; Wooden pallet; Wood pallet; Palletising
  • alt=A man using a crowbar to dismantle a wooden pallet
  • alt=A row of automated palletizers
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  • alt=Metal pallets with removable beams, several of which are filled with firewood
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  • alt=A diagram showed the correct dimensions for various parts of a EuroPallet
  • alt=A plastic skid
  • alt=A galvanized steel pallet
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  • alt=An eighteen-wheeler carrying used wooden pallets
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  • alt=A wooden pallet with a glove on it
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Pallet         
·noun A potter's wheel.
II. Pallet ·noun A small and mean bed; a bed of straw.
III. Pallet ·noun A click or pawl for driving a ratchet wheel.
IV. Pallet ·noun ·same·as Palette.
V. Pallet ·noun A tool for gilding the backs of books over the bands.
VI. Pallet ·noun One of the series of disks or pistons in the chain pump.
VII. Pallet ·noun A cup containing three ounces, - /ormerly used by surgeons.
VIII. Pallet ·noun A board on which a newly molded brick is conveyed to the hack.
IX. Pallet ·noun An instrument used to take up gold leaf from the pillow, and to apply it.
X. Pallet ·noun In the organ, a valve between the wind chest and the mouth of a pipe or row of pipes.
XI. Pallet ·noun One of a pair of shelly plates that protect the siphon tubes of certain bivalves, as the Teredo. ·see ·Illust. of Teredo.
XII. Pallet ·noun A wooden implement used by potters, crucible makers, ·etc., for forming, beating, and rounding their works. It is oval, round, and of other forms.
XIII. Pallet ·noun 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.
pallet         
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1.
A pallet is a narrow mattress filled with straw which is put on the floor for someone to sleep on.
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2.
A pallet is a hard, narrow bed.
He was given only a wooden pallet with a blanket.
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A pallet is a flat wooden or metal platform on which goods are stored so that they can be lifted and moved using a forklift truck.
The warehouse will hold more than 90,000 pallets storing 30 million Easter eggs.
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pallet1
¦ noun
1. a straw mattress.
2. a crude or makeshift bed.
Origin
ME: from Anglo-Norman Fr. paillete, from paille 'straw'.
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pallet2
¦ noun
1. a portable platform on which goods can be moved, stacked, and stored.
2. a flat wooden blade with a handle, used to shape clay or plaster.
3. an artist's palette.
4. a projection on a machine part, serving to change the mode of motion of a wheel.
(in a clock or watch) a projection transmitting motion from an escapement to a pendulum or balance wheel.
Derivatives
palleted adjective
palletize or palletise verb
Origin
ME: from Fr. palette 'little blade', from L. pala 'spade'.
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pallet3
¦ noun Heraldry a narrow vertical strip usually borne in groups of two or three.
Origin
C15: dimin. of pale2.

Wikipedia

Pallet

A pallet (also called a skid) is a flat transport structure, which supports goods in a stable fashion while being lifted by a forklift, a pallet jack, a front loader, a jacking device, or an erect crane. A pallet is the structural foundation of a unit load, which allows handling and storage efficiencies. Goods in shipping containers are often placed on a pallet secured with strapping, stretch wrap or shrink wrap and shipped. Since its invention in the twentieth century, its use has dramatically supplanted older forms of crating like the wooden box and the wooden barrel, as it works well with modern packaging like corrugated boxes and intermodal containers commonly used for bulk shipping. In addition, pallet collars can be used to support and protect items shipped and stored on pallets.

While most pallets are wooden, pallets can also be made of plastic, metal, paper, and recycled materials.

Pronunciation examples for pallet
1. They had a pallet full-- not a pallet full.
Narrative Plentitude _ Viet Thanh Nguyen and Vu Tran _ Talks at Google
2. pallet we have.
Drinking the Devil's Acre _ Duggan McDonnell _ Talks at Google
3. If you want a pallet, then we can arrange a pallet.
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4. instead of by the pallet.
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5. So everything, like, coats the pallet more.
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Examples of use of pallet
1. The pallet costs more –– wood‘s up," Jarahian said.
2. Because he had a cleft pallet, he could not speak.
3. Finally, somebody voluntarily fixed his cleft pallet, and now he can speak.
4. And, cats climbed onto a pallet that came from cold storage through the store.
5. The floor onto which the car was driven is essentially a pallet in an automated warehouse.