pallet

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A flat wooden platform on which goods are stacked for storing or moving.

   The forklift lifted a pallet of boxes onto the truck.

2. 2
   noun

   A simple bed or mattress, often made of straw.

   The traveller slept on a thin pallet on the floor.

Said to be from Middle English *palet, from Middle French *palet, from Middle French pal (“pale”), ultimately from Latin palla (“a strip of cloth”).

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