Meaning
1 sensesTo load or stack (goods) onto pallets.
Examples
5 sentencesThe team built the house from recycled steel containers and pallets.
In the criminals' storehouse, the authorities found pallets upon pallets of stolen goods.
The wooden pallets were used to transport the goods from one place to another.
At higher production rates, it becomes necessary to use an automatic palletizer to sort boxes of finished goods onto pallets for shipping.
Oscar Díaz, managing director of Mundopalet, a company that makes pallets to transport goods, is a worried man.
Origin
From Middle English paillet, from Anglo-Norman paillete (“bundle of straw”), from Old FrenFrom Middle English paillet, from Anglo-Norman paillete (“bundle of straw”), from Old French paille (“straw, chaff”), from Latin palea (“chaff”).
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Forms
pallets, palleting, palleted, palletedWord family
1 related wordsLessons for this word
3 lessons- A1Present simple — Because it is a verb
- A1Past simple, regular verbs — Because of its past form
- A2Present perfect: introduction — Because of its past participle
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.