Definition of "pallet" in Anglais

noun

1. A straw bed.

2. (by extension) 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.

verb

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

noun

1. (heraldry) A narrow vertical stripe, narrower than a pale. Diminutive of pale.

noun

1. (painting) Archaic form of palette.

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.

noun

1. (historical, rare) A Parisian measure of blood let; a cup containing three ounces, formerly used by surgeons.