Pellet vs. Pallet

Pelletnoun

A small, compressed, hard chunk of matter.

‘a pellet of wood, paper, or ore’;

Palletnoun

A portable platform, usually designed to be easily moved by a forklift, on which goods can be stacked, for transport or storage.

Pelletnoun

A lead projectile used as ammunition in rifled air guns.

Palletnoun

(military) 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.

Pelletnoun

Compressed byproduct of digestion regurgitated by owls. Serves as a waste disposal mechanism for indigestible parts of food, such as fur and bones.

Palletnoun

(military) (DOD only) 463L pallet – An 88” x 108” aluminum flat base used to facilitate the upload and download of aircraft.

Pelletnoun

(heraldry) A roundel sable (black circular spot; also called ogress).

Palletnoun

A straw bed.

Pelletnoun

One of the short conductive tubes in a Pelletron particle accelerator.

Palletnoun

(by extension) A makeshift bed.

Pelletverb

To form into pellets.

Palletnoun

(heraldry) A narrow vertical stripe.

Pelletverb

To strike with pellets.

Palletverb

(transitive) To load or stack (goods) onto pallets.

Pelletnoun

A little ball; as, a pellet of wax on paper.

Palletnoun

A small and mean bed; a bed of straw.

Pelletnoun

A bullet; a ball for firearms.

‘As swift as a pellet out of a gun.’;

Palletnoun

A perpendicular band upon an escutcheon, one half the breadth of the pale.

Pelletverb

To form into small balls; to pelletize.

Palletnoun

Same as Palette.

Pelletnoun

a small sphere

Palletnoun

A wooden implement used by potters, crucible makers, etc., for forming, beating, and rounding their works. It is oval, round, and of other forms.

Pelletnoun

a solid missile discharged from a firearm;

‘the shot buzzed past his ear’;

Palletnoun

An instrument used to take up gold leaf from the pillow, and to apply it.

Palletnoun

A board on which a newly molded brick is conveyed to the hack.

Palletnoun

A click or pawl for driving a ratchet wheel.

Palletnoun

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.

Palletnoun

In the organ, a valve between the wind chest and the mouth of a pipe or row of pipes.

Palletnoun

One of a pair of shelly plates that protect the siphon tubes of certain bivalves, as the Teredo. See Illust. of Teredo.

Palletnoun

A cup containing three ounces, - formerly used by surgeons.

Palletnoun

A low movable platform used for temporary storage of objects so that they can be conveniently moved; it is commonly made of wooden boards, about 4 inches high, and typically has openings in the side into which the blades of a fork-lift truck may be inserted so as to lift and move the pallet and the objects on it.

Palletnoun

the range of colour characteristic of a particular artist or painting or school of art

Palletnoun

a portable platform for storing or moving goods that are stacked on it

Palletnoun

a hand tool with a flat blade used by potters for mixing and shaping clay

Palletnoun

a mattress filled with straw or a pad made of quilts; used as a bed

Palletnoun

board that provides a flat surface on which artists mix paints and the range of colors used

Pallet

A pallet () (also called a skid) is a flat transport structure, which supports goods in a stable fashion while being lifted by a forklift, a pallet jack, a front loader, a jacking device, or an erect crane. A pallet is the structural foundation of a unit load which allows handling and storage efficiencies.