1
: a straw-filled tick or mattress
2
: a small, hard, or temporary bed
1
: a wooden flat-bladed instrument
2
: a lever or surface in a timepiece that receives an impulse from the escapement wheel and imparts motion to a balance or pendulum
3
: a portable platform for handling, storing, or moving materials and packages (as in warehouses, factories, or vehicles)
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Hannah Fry, Los Angeles Times, 23 May 2024
The residents live in tents, or shelters made of tarps and pallets, or makeshift compounds emanating curls of wood smoke.
—Photographs Todd Heisler, New York Times, 19 May 2024
On board were two large generators, two black-and-white all terrain vehicles and a pallet of oxygen generators.
—Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 17 May 2024
In a typical vault in the cash management business, a client’s money is sealed in protective plastic wrapping, placed on pallets and segregated from others’ funds, said Jeffrey Zwirn, a longtime security consultant.
—Daniel Miller, Los Angeles Times, 9 May 2024
Police tore apart a fortified encampment’s barricade of plywood, pallets, metal fences and dumpsters, then pulled down canopies and tents.
—Julie Watson, Fortune, 3 May 2024
In the back corner are pallets of FPV drones waiting to be unloaded.
—Justin Ling, WIRED, 2 May 2024
The encampment built Tuesday afternoon featured a dozen canopy tents enclosed in a circle and a makeshift barrier of rope, tables, sheets of metal and wood pallets.
—Sarah Lapidus, The Arizona Republic, 1 May 2024
Counter-protesters then tried to pull down the parade barricades, plywood and wooden pallets surrounding the encampment.
—Mercury News Staff and Wire Reports, The Mercury News, 1 May 2024
Noun
Police pushed back the crowd, which eventually retreated to another area of campus near Murphy Hall, and tore down the encampment and wood pallets surrounding it.
—Hannah Fry, Los Angeles Times, 23 May 2024
The residents live in tents, or shelters made of tarps and pallets, or makeshift compounds emanating curls of wood smoke.
—Photographs Todd Heisler, New York Times, 19 May 2024
On board were two large generators, two black-and-white all terrain vehicles and a pallet of oxygen generators.
—Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 17 May 2024
In a typical vault in the cash management business, a client’s money is sealed in protective plastic wrapping, placed on pallets and segregated from others’ funds, said Jeffrey Zwirn, a longtime security consultant.
—Daniel Miller, Los Angeles Times, 9 May 2024
Police tore apart a fortified encampment’s barricade of plywood, pallets, metal fences and dumpsters, then pulled down canopies and tents.
—Julie Watson, Fortune, 3 May 2024
In the back corner are pallets of FPV drones waiting to be unloaded.
—Justin Ling, WIRED, 2 May 2024
The encampment built Tuesday afternoon featured a dozen canopy tents enclosed in a circle and a makeshift barrier of rope, tables, sheets of metal and wood pallets.
—Sarah Lapidus, The Arizona Republic, 1 May 2024
Counter-protesters then tried to pull down the parade barricades, plywood and wooden pallets surrounding the encampment.
—Mercury News Staff and Wire Reports, The Mercury News, 1 May 2024
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“Pallet.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pallet. Accessed 28 May. 2024.
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