pallet
Pallet is a busy noun, but it’s mainly a slab or framework of wood used for carrying things. The most common type of pallet is the kind used to move cargo.
After the earthquake in Haiti, hundreds of pallets of food, medicine, and bottles of fresh water were delivered to Port-au-Prince by air. Many pallets are designed with slots at the bottom to accept a forklift’s forks. If you’re a talented carpenter, you might be able to turn the wood from a used pallet into a table, a chest of drawers, a tree house, or perhaps a little bed to lie down on after all that hard work.
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a hand tool with a flat blade used by potters for mixing and shaping clay
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hand tool
a tool used with workers’ hands
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hand tool
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a portable platform for storing or moving goods that are stacked on it
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platform
a raised horizontal surface
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platform
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board that provides a flat surface on which artists mix paints and the range of colors used
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the range of colour characteristic of a particular artist or painting or school of art
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a mattress filled with straw or a pad made of quilts; used as a bed
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mattress
a large thick pad filled with resilient material and often incorporating coiled springs, used as a bed or part of a bed
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mattress