pallet
verbEtymology From Middle English paillet, from Anglo-Norman paillete (“bundle of straw”), from Old French paille (“straw, chaff”), from Latin palea (“chaff”).
1
To load or stack (goods) onto pallets.
- Derived terms
- unpalleted
pallet
nounUK /ˈpælɪt/ · US /ˈpælɪt/
Etymology From Middle English paillet, from Anglo-Norman paillete (“bundle of straw”), from Old French paille (“straw, chaff”), from Latin palea (“chaff”).
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, [...]1599, [Thomas] Nashe, Nashes Lenten Stuffe, […], London: […] [Thomas Judson and Valentine Simmes] for N[icholas] L[ing] and C[uthbert] B[urby] […], →OCLC, page 3:
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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 roof—the window, or rather opening, for window there was none, but a wooden shutter, which kept creaking backwards and forwards—the floor, discoloured with dirt—the wretched pallet—all struck her with a sick shudder of loathing and misery.1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Romance and Reality. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, pages 222–223:
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Broadly 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.
- Derived terms
- cargo pallet, GMA pallet, palletainer, palletisation, palletise, palletization, palletize, pallet jack, palletlike, pallet picking, pallet pump, pallet truck, repallet