Definition/Meaning of pallet

• English - Noun: pallet (plural pallets) A bed of loose straw . Near-synonym: strawbed (mattress sense) 1599, [Thomas] Nashe, Nashes Lenten Stuffe, […], London: […] [Thomas Judson and Valentine Simmes] for N[icholas] L[ing] and C[uthbert] B[urby] […], →OCLC, page 3: That good old blind bibber of Helicon I wot well, came a begging to one of the chiefe citties of Greece, & promiſed them vaſt corpulent volumes of…
• English - Verb: pallet (third-person singular simple present pallets, present participle palleting, simple past and past participle palleted) (transitive) To load or stack (goods) onto pallets.
• English - References: The Oxford English Dictionary , 2nd edition , Oxford University Press Notes: ↑ 1 . 0 1 . 1 Joint Publication 1-02 U . S . Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms; 12 April 2001 (As Amended Through 14 April 2006).
• English - Anagrams: L-plate
• English - Etymology: Etymology 1. From Middle English paillet , from Anglo-Norman paillete (“bundle of straw”), from Old French paille (“straw, chaff”), from Latin palea (“chaff”). Etymology 2. Said to be from Middle English *palet, from Middle French *palet, from Middle French pal (“pale”), ultimately from Latin palla (“a strip of cloth”). Etymology 3. Learned borrowing from French palette .