1
: a portable platform for handling, storing, or moving materials and packages (as in warehouses, factories, or vehicles)
2
: a wooden flat-bladed instrument
3
: a lever or surface in a timepiece that receives an impulse from the escapement wheel and imparts motion to a balance or pendulum
1
: a straw-filled tick or mattress
2
: a small, hard, or temporary bed
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Los Angeles Times, 9 July 2025
Forty-eight pallets would fill one and a half standard tractor-trailers.
—Meg Wingerter, Denver Post, 8 July 2025
Driving, being in control of all these pallets of Guinness and stacking them, loading [semis] that were going out to various pubs in Northern Ireland.
—EW.com, 8 July 2025
Neal admitted to buying pallets from Evans, according to the affidavit.
—Alex Brizee, Idaho Statesman, 26 June 2025
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This type of operation, known as a CARE-plus cleanup, plays out hundreds of times each week in the city, with sanitation crews seizing and destroying tents, tarps, pallets, shopping carts and many other objects.
—Los Angeles Times, 9 July 2025
Forty-eight pallets would fill one and a half standard tractor-trailers.
—Meg Wingerter, Denver Post, 8 July 2025
Driving, being in control of all these pallets of Guinness and stacking them, loading [semis] that were going out to various pubs in Northern Ireland.
—EW.com, 8 July 2025
Neal admitted to buying pallets from Evans, according to the affidavit.
—Alex Brizee, Idaho Statesman, 26 June 2025
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“Pallet.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pallet. Accessed 29 Jul. 2025.
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