1. pallet - Noun
2. pallet - Verb
A small and mean bed; a bed of straw.
Same as Palette.
A wooden implement used by potters, crucible makers, etc., for forming, beating, and rounding their works. It is oval, round, and of other forms.
An instrument used to take up gold leaf from the pillow, and to apply it.
A tool for gilding the backs of books over the bands.
A board on which a newly molded brick is conveyed to the hack.
A click or pawl for driving a ratchet wheel.
One of the series of disks or pistons in the chain pump.
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.
In the organ, a valve between the wind chest and the mouth of a pipe or row of pipes.
One of a pair of shelly plates that protect the siphon tubes of certain bivalves, as the Teredo. See Illust. of Teredo.
A cup containing three ounces, -- /ormerly used by surgeons.
Source: Webster's dictionaryThe wisest man I ever knew in my whole life could not read or write. At four o'clock in the morning, when the promise of a new day still lingered over French lands, he got up from his pallet and left for the fields, taking to pasture the half-dozen pigs whose fertility nourished him and his wife. José Saramago
She curled up on the pallet and stared into the dark, praying for a peaceful sleep. Prayers didn't do no good, oui. Antonio chased her all night. (In the book Antonio, her father, beats and sexually abuses her long-term; she eventually kills him) Nalo Hopkinson
I've thought upon thy brow when Night Threw o'er my pallet her summer moonlight, And I have looked on the midnight sky To catch the depth and light of thy eye; I painted from these and from memory, For I could not paint when I looked on thee. Letitia Elizabeth Landon
I have never subscribed to the Dirty Pallet school of painting. Peter Wright
As the key is pressed down the pallet is lifted, allowing for air to enter the tone chamber in either direction and excite the reeds; air flow direction depends on the direction of bellows movement. Source: Internet
As a result, Besman recorded Hooker, in addition to playing guitar and singing, stomping along with the music on a wooden pallet. Source: Internet