pallets

noun

Paleness; pallor.

1. A wooden stake; a picket.
2. Fence made from wooden stake; palisade.
3. (by extension) Limits, bounds (especially before of).
4. The bounds of morality, good behaviour or judgment in civilized company, in the phrase beyond the pale.
5. A vertical band down the middle of a shield.
6. A territory or defensive area within a specific boundary or under a given jurisdiction.
7. The jurisdiction (territorial or otherwise) of an authority.
8. A cheese scoop.
9. A shore for bracing a timber before it is fastened.

1. A thin board on which a painter lays and mixes colours.
2. The range of colors in a given work or item or body of work.
3. A visual selection of colours, tools, commands, etc.
4. A plate of armour covering the points of junction at the bend of the shoulders and elbows.
5. A plate against which a person presses their breast to give force to a hand-operated drill.

1. A portable platform, usually designed to be easily moved by a forklift, on which goods can be stacked, for transport or storage.
2. A flat base for combining stores or carrying a single item to form a unit load for handling, transportation, and storage by materials handling equipment.
3. (DOD only) 463L pallet – An 88” x 108” aluminum flat base used to facilitate the upload and download of aircraft.

1. A straw bed.
2. (by extension) A makeshift bed.

1. A wooden implement, often oval or round, used by potters, crucible makers, etc., for forming, beating, and rounding their works.
2. A potter's wheel.
3. (gilding) An instrument used to take up gold leaf from the pillow, and to apply it.
4. (gilding) A tool for gilding the backs of books over the bands.
5. (brickmaking) A board on which a newly moulded brick is conveyed to the hack.
6. A click or pawl for driving a ratchet wheel.
7. One of the series of disks or pistons in the chain pump.
8. 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.
9. In the organ, a valve between the wind chest and the mouth of a pipe or row of pipes.
10. One of a pair of shelly plates that protect the siphon tubes of certain bivalves, such as the Teredo.
11. A cup containing three ounces, formerly used by surgeons.