Pallet

Quick meaning: Pallet is a noun meaning A bed of loose straw.

Meaning

A bed of loose straw.

More Meanings

1. (by extension) Any makeshift bedding place.
2. A portable platform, usually designed to be easily moved by a forklift, on which goods can be stacked, for transport or storage.
3. (transitive) To load or stack (goods) onto pallets.
4. (heraldry) A narrow vertical stripe, narrower than a pale. Diminutive of pale.
5. (painting) Archaic form of palette.
6. A wooden implement, often oval or round, used by potters, crucible makers, etc., for forming, beating, and rounding their works.
7. A potter's wheel.

Example Sentences

Near-synonym: scratcher (slang)

Near-synonym: strawbed (mattress sense)

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

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!"

Word Forms

• pallets
• palleting
• palleted
• palet

Synonyms for pallet

Depending on context, synonyms include strawbed, scratcher, skid, palette.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include palette, skid, plank, ledge, paddle, shelf.

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