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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Dhruv Khullar, The New Yorker, 6 Jan. 2025
The center grew up in an apartment eight minutes away, sleeping on the living room floor on pallets with a dozen or more of her cousins.
—Luca Evans, Orange County Register, 11 Dec. 2024
The new design is a miniature reactor which fits on a standard military pallet and produces 22.4 liters (0.8 gallons) of hydrogen gas per minute.
—David Hambling, Forbes, 5 Dec. 2024
This tiny iridescent green insect, accidentally imported from Asia on pallets, is deadly to ash trees and will likely wipe out more than a billion of them before it’s done reproducing itself across the Northeast.
—Debra Utacia Krol, USA TODAY, 29 Nov. 2024
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Noun
Forty-pound blocks of Romano cheese sat on a pallet like bricks.
—Dhruv Khullar, The New Yorker, 6 Jan. 2025
The center grew up in an apartment eight minutes away, sleeping on the living room floor on pallets with a dozen or more of her cousins.
—Luca Evans, Orange County Register, 11 Dec. 2024
The new design is a miniature reactor which fits on a standard military pallet and produces 22.4 liters (0.8 gallons) of hydrogen gas per minute.
—David Hambling, Forbes, 5 Dec. 2024
This tiny iridescent green insect, accidentally imported from Asia on pallets, is deadly to ash trees and will likely wipe out more than a billion of them before it’s done reproducing itself across the Northeast.
—Debra Utacia Krol, USA TODAY, 29 Nov. 2024
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“Pallet.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pallet. Accessed 23 Jan. 2025.
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