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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Tereza Pultarova, Space.com, 14 Apr. 2025
People are going around scavenging from construction sites and breaking apart wood pallets from ships that deliver food.
—Olivia B. Waxman, Time, 10 Apr. 2025
The shipping manifest stated the truck was carrying oranges, but troopers became suspicious of unlabeled cardboard boxes amid the orange pallets.
—Theresa Braine, New York Daily News, 27 Feb. 2025
The couple, who own commercial real estate in Southern California including a pallet company and a medical office, had been in the process of divorcing for two years, Detective Dominic Martinez of the San Bernardino Police Department said, The San Bernardino Sun reports.
—Kc Baker, People.com, 19 Feb. 2025
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The space projectile was later identified as a remnant of a battery pallet thrown out of the International Space Station three years earlier.
—Tereza Pultarova, Space.com, 14 Apr. 2025
People are going around scavenging from construction sites and breaking apart wood pallets from ships that deliver food.
—Olivia B. Waxman, Time, 10 Apr. 2025
The shipping manifest stated the truck was carrying oranges, but troopers became suspicious of unlabeled cardboard boxes amid the orange pallets.
—Theresa Braine, New York Daily News, 27 Feb. 2025
The couple, who own commercial real estate in Southern California including a pallet company and a medical office, had been in the process of divorcing for two years, Detective Dominic Martinez of the San Bernardino Police Department said, The San Bernardino Sun reports.
—Kc Baker, People.com, 19 Feb. 2025
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“Pallet.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pallet. Accessed 23 Apr. 2025.
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