Definitions for pallets

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pallets pal·let

Spelling: [pal-it]

IPA: /ˈpæl ɪt/

Pallets is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 229 anagrams from letters in pallets (aellpst).

Definitions for pallets

noun

1. a bed or mattress of straw.
2. a small or makeshift bed.
3. a small, low, portable platform on which goods are placed for storage or moving, as in a warehouse or vehicle.
4. a flat board or metal plate used to support ceramic articles during drying.
5. Horology. a lever with three projections, two of which intermittently lock and receive impulses from the escape wheel and one which transmits these impulses to the balance. either of the two projections of this lever that engage and release the escape wheel.
6. a painter's palette.
7. (on a pawl) a lip or projection that engages with the teeth of a ratchet wheel.
8. Printing. typeholder.
9. (in gilding) an instrument used to take up the gold leaves from the pillow and to apply and extend them.
10. a shaping tool used by potters and consisting of a flat blade or plate with a handle at one end.
11. Bookbinding. a tool for decorating the spine of a book. the stamping of the name of the binder on the inside covers of a book.

verb (used with object)

1. palletize.

Origin of pallets

1325-75; Middle English pailet Anglo-French paillete, equivalent to Old French paille straw (Latin palea chaff) + -ete ette

Examples for pallets

We love the chicken on a pallet of herby, slightly sweet cornbread dressing, which imbibes all the seeping juices.

He squatted down beside Chiara's pallet and knew there could be no hope for him.

It is important that a smooth and balanced experience on the pallet is created.

I noticed their new un-faded uniforms, their dust-free boots, and their duffel bags stacked high on a pallet.

That night a child was born to Julia, on a pallet of dried grass and prowler skins.

Seizing the sheath with the other hand, that the pallet had dropped from.

Now and again it was my turn to lie in that pallet in her chamber.

He took the clothes up to his room, and hid them under the pallet.

Another struck him in the chest, knocking him to the pallet.

In 2004, a pallet of batteries caught fire on a FedEx plane.